Starts out very well...but it does run a bit long and it also explains to much.

Rating: 7/10 (25 April 2006)

This one has music seemingly directly from the game it also has a lot of the atmosphere from the game as well, especially when you first enter Silent Hill. I was thinking, "Wow, this has to be one of the best video game adaptations ever". I mean they had the clues that characters would find in the game on display here, the monsters were exactly what you see in the game only more disturbing as here they are in the flesh. I was waiting for the heroine to open a random cabinet to find a shotgun or something, and maybe some ammo in a shelf, of course thankfully that did not happen. The story has a mother taking her daughter to Silent Hill in hopes that this will somehow explain her very bizarre sleepwalking behavior. Of course, for those who played the video game Silent Hill is not your ordinary little town. Upon arrival her daughter is lost, the air is full of ash, and when the siren goes off the entire town goes black and things of indescribable horror lurk in the darkness. A police officer is there as well, having followed our heroine into town and at first she is a pain, but later she is very helpful. However, the movie would have been a lot better if it did not try to explain so much. I mean in the games they didn't really explain anything about why the town itself was going crazy, usually it just explained to some extent the scenario that brought the people into town. I didn't really care for all the explaining as it narrowed it all down right to the cause of everything. Granted this made for a rather grisly climax, I still would have liked to have scene the little religious group taken out of the picture all together. I don't know I just think we needed something more out of the game for the end and less of the here is why the town and everything in it is happening. This also could have taken the movie down a few minutes as it seems to run a bit long at the end as well. Still though the movie had depth and while it wasn't the greatest movie ever, it was still very interesting to watch. Also, the cast is rather good and the scenes with Sean Bean were particularly good...I just he would have found a more vague cause.