Lame -- REALLY lame

Rating: 2/10 (3 October 2007)

Maybe if I'd ever played any of the Silent Hill games, I'd have a better opinion of this movie -- but it shouldn't be necessary, right? A decent movie should stand on its own merits.
"Silent Hill" was little more than a collection of interesting special effects desperately in search of a plot. It's like the creator of this mess of a movie had a bunch of cool ideas for scenes and only after filming them, figured out that he ought to concoct a "story" of some kind to go with them -- and I use the word "story" VERY loosely. What a mess. Little of it made much sense and the parts that were, apparently, supposed to be REALLY SCARY were pretty much laughable.
I've given this lame-o movie a "2" to honor its occasionally interesting visuals -- but it lost most of its points for having a stupid and poorly put together storyline.