Totally disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (1 August 2006)

I'm a fan of the game, which explains why I was so eager to see this movie. I know that adaptations tend to ruin the originals, but this film outdid it. And the main reason is that it pretends to be faithful to the story of Silent Hill, but it destroys all the logic within its universe. The first twenty minutes of the movie are promising. Rose is taking her adopted daughter to the strange town of Silent Hill to discover the reason behind her sleep walking and nightmares. The atmosphere is similar to the game at this point: a deserted, foguish town, where it seems like it's snowing. There's no one around, no way out. I remember thinking "yay, this is good". But I was wrong. "Silent Hill" progressively starts to get ridiculous. In the game, the things that happened were weird, so weird that they scared the hell out of you. Here they seem just absurd and not frightening. The plot then gets even more implausible from there, with a poorly written script, too many plot holes to count and gorish scenes that, aside from making you want to laugh at them, do little to help this "horror" movie. The whole explanation behind the events (if you can call that an explanations, because in the end, nothing's explained decently) is frankly silly. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone, much less to the fans of the game who will see a great story destroyed in a couple of hours.