I liked the whole movie except for the end...

Rating: 6/10 (22 April 2006)

I'll admit, I am 25 years old, and the I only played Silent Hill years ago on playstation. The game was really cool, though I would get frustrated trying to figure out puzzles. (just like resident evil). With that being said, I must say that the movie plot was vaguely familiar, and I knew it would be a creepy, cool, wicked sort of movie. I will now list my pros and cons of the movie: PROS: 1) Gore that is cool: First, I didn't think there was that much gore in this movie. Really, there isn't a lot except for a pyramid head skin ripping scene and the climax. But, the way the gore was done was very classy. I absolutely though the part where pyramid head rips the clothes and then the skin off a woman and throws it at the door was superb. That was pure evil and rage.Well Done. too often horror movies "gore" is over the top, but it doesn't quite wrench you, w/ some scenes in "Hill" it certainly does wrench at you 2) Beginning Story Line: I love movies that are creepy and dark, Silen Hill was a perfect video game to go movie b/c of the fact that the world changes into a sort of hell at certain points. The loud tornado sirens that warn of the darkness is very cool 3) Characters: Someone said here on IMDb that they don't like Sean bean, I think he's great, and Rahda Mitchell was good, though a bit over-the-top at the end.
CONS: 1) Be different. The movie could have ended superbly, but it didn't. Video games have the luxury of being far stretched because the real point of video games, is to play them. Some loyalists may hate me for this, but who says its wrong to take a video game plot and change some parts to suit the big screen? My point: The ending which involved a girl, and another demon girl, and the Sharron girl, didn't really make sense. The movie could have drawn up an ending without explaining it all away. For example, at the end we get the whole truth of whats going on, but it is lackluster, it concerns the stereotypical backwoods Christians that are so Christian they become evil, or something like that. B/C they burn people who don't follow the commandments. But, this could have been done better. I mean, don't try to explain the evil as coming from a girls imagination, make it an evil that is all-encompassing, and is part of a larger picture about the world, make the girl some sort of catalyst for hell. I got the sense that the evil church woman was really the cause of all of this, and once shes gone, the evil is gone. I like movies that make their plots something bigger.
2) The Ending #2 complaint: Why is main character sitting in her house in a fog? Is she still in the "darkness"? I know this probably follows the game, but seeing in how much of the audience doesn't have the luxury of playing video games all day, how are we to know what the heck is going on? Explain please.
3) Pyramid Head: I loved this character, the movie should've have spent more time doing some action sequences where pyramid head and other creatures kill some folks. But i understand that this movie is "tension" based. But, it still would have been cool.
Thx!