Inconsistent Mess, Very Disappointing After Brotherhood Of The Wolf!

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2019)

You would think that the director of the marvelous, well-crafted Brotherhood of The Wolf would have come up with a great follow-up film. Apparently not! And even more disappointing considering it was a passion project for the director, who sought after the rights.
Where do I start? The movie is bad from the terrible acting, poor development of characters, inconsistency in tone and even the way the horror plays out. It's almost like watching two different movies stitched together.
The two main characters, the mother and daughter, are quite dull. I don't get any sense of family between them, or even the father (played by Sean Bean). Not sure if the later reveal that she was adopted has anything to do with that distance. Sean Bean seems redundant here. Whatever evidence he uncovers in his quest for the truth is rendered redundant when the mother goes through that whole 'reveal sequence'. It seems like the only reason he was there was to have someone hear the garbled phone calls.
The presence of the motorcycle cop is also redundant, only serves for a shocking death towards the end of the film.
The movie starts off with the mother and daughter driving off to Silent Hill because of the daughter's nightmares. Not sure why she needs to take the daughter with her, without the father. At some point, she interacts with the motorcycle cop, who then chases her all the way up to the Silent Hill area, where they both crash.
They wake up in a hazy setting, where as the movie goes on, you see is a parallel universe version of the town. And we also see the occasional monster. But then the siren goes off, darkness falls, and some even creepier crawlies come alive. All the time, the mother is looking for her daughter. But there doesn't seem to be any consistency as to when the monsters show up, because there's a scene when they are on the road and some armless/faceless monsters show up, and there wasn't any siren.
Eventually after all the yelling an screaming they were doing, they meet up with the town folk who are still alive in this purgatory place. And that's when the movie switches from monster movie to witches/cult/sacrificial burnings.
All the while, Sean Bean's father character attempts to find answers, but what's the point of his character? He can't do anything to help the wife and daughter. The mother is constantly looking for her daughter, but it gets tiresome. Eventually you find out some confusing plot twist about the daughter really being the alter ego of a girl burned in sacrifice years earlier in Silent Hill. Go figure.
No explanation about these apparently coal fires that have made the town abandoned, and what relation that has to the sacrificial cult that died in the church.
By the end of the film, you don't care anymore. And you realize you wasted time watching it because there's no real end. The mother and daughter didn't die in the town, but they're still dead? Confusing, muddled mess. And a waste of time. Not worth sitting through.