Well, I Did Like The Monsters...

Rating: 1/10 (29 March 2013)

I'm not a fan of the game (tried to play it once, but didn't like it), so I saw this as a stand-alone movie. And as such, it's totally incoherent.
It's full of HUGE and very obvious plot holes and "WTF" moment. Although... what plot? It's a confusing mess that makes very little sense, not a story.
And that whole cult business is so totally ridiculous and unrealistic, I can't even find the right word to describe how stupid it was. A bunch of deluded religious fanatics (incidentally, the same ones that killed that vengeful little girl) living in an abandoned city full of monsters, and believe that nothing else in the world exists -- when the nearest populated - and perfectly normal - town is 15 minutes away?
The atmosphere was ridiculous. That constant fog/rain or whatever. Trying too hard. I was not convinced. It's just cheesy and unrealistic. It had a feel of a studio filled with man-generated special effect, not a remote/abandoned location.
And why did the dead girl wait for the protagonist to get to the city, and only then she killed off its inhabitants (who, allegedly, tortured her to death)? She had nothing at all to do with this woman, except that her daughter (Sharon) was a look-alike of the dead girl. Maybe it's just me, but nothing in this whole movie makes any sense.
Well, the pyramid-head monster looked kind of cool, I'll give them that.
Anyway... I don't know what to say about this film, except that it's really not very good (to put it VERY mildly).
Like I said, I did kind of like the monsters, but the rest was an utter failure, including the acting. The police woman was GODAWFUL, honestly. What an entirely talentless individual. The rest weren't much better, though.
Maybe hardcore fans of the game thought it was good (because, perhaps, they could understand what was going on), but I thought it was a messy, incoherent, unrealistic, depressing (not scary), badly-acted piece of garbage.
It is definitely not horror. It's an IMITATION of a psychological thriller. A bad one at that.
Wouldn't recommend to anyone.