Style VS Story

Rating: 7/10 (26 May 2006)

Silent Hill is an above-average horror drama, which benefits from a magnificent visual style and shocking cgi effects and suffers from a mediocre story with sometimes ridiculously bad dialogue. what does roger avery intend to say if he is having the policewoman say "looks like there's been a fire here" when it's crystal clear that the whole damn town has been burnt and ashes is still flying through the air? the side story, which fails to deliver the plot, is so unbelievably unnecessary that you almost feel sorry for sean bean. and radha mitchells character is a joke, doing strange things at the wrong moments, changing moods every 5 minutes and delivering crappy one-liners (plus she's absolutely burning her hand with her zippo!). the story itself has it's up and downs, basically it's good enough to keep the audience entertained, although the ending again is a major yawn. if you have played the game (like I did) you'll be pleased with the music which is almost the same as in the games and with the visualization of the monsters and the town itself. the effects are a mixture between creepy and gory and the final battle scene is pretty hard to swallow. all in all this is a watchable horror movie, compared to most of the junk that flooded the market in the last 3 years. switch off your brain and enjoy the ride.