not as good as expected

Rating: 4/10 (28 April 2006)

what was this movie about?! Definitely not one of the best I have seen and if somebody is comparing it to "The Shining" (more ambitious suspense cinema) I really don't understand it. Woman drives to the ghost city of Silent Hill. She takes weird daughter with her. The girl disappears after her mother crashed the car. Mother tries to find her and that's basically it. She runs thru the empty streets. There's time she's brave then she screams and freaks out but then she's brave again...Oh, there is father too, female cop in tight leather pants and few more weirdos. Everything dipped in the dark, unreal parallel-world-like sauce. How many movies similar to this have we seen? Isn't it boring yet? Probably the director wanted to create bad dream-like experience but it's just didn't work out. This movie is an "empty", creepy picture show with no point. Will scare you for sure if horrible, hellish creatures and fog is enough for you. To me, real nightmare starts when my brain is a bit more engaged. I enjoy good plot. If you're not demanding you could see it. You will like the citizens and the metal-head man(?) with a very big knife.