SILENT HILL : One Big Jumbled Mess...

Rating: 1/10 (11 May 2006)

SILENT HILL
It's one thing for a movie not to make sense... it make the audience think. It's an entirely different thing when the movie doesn't make an ounce of sense in addition to being too long, boring, idiotic, and not frightening. Unfortunately, SILENT HILL is all those things.
What looked like it could potentially be 2006's scariest movie based on previews becomes a muddled piece of garbage on the big screen. Essentially the movie is one long preview to a movie that looks intriguing, but leaves too many questions unanswered. A preview is a brief jumbling of different images without answering the audience's every question in order to bring them into the seats (keyword: brief). SILENT HILL is basically a preview, leaving questions unanswered and jumbling together random images that mixed together are simply confusing... only this preview drags on and on and on past 2 hours.
Based on a popular video game, SILENT HILL features some of the most stylized direction I've seen in a long time. Sadly, this stylization is not held together by a director with not a single ounce of apparent talent for coherent storytelling. Somewhere in all this footage there might have been a good performance from Radha Mitchell... but not as they're packaged here.
The most frustrating part of all this, is that there is the potential for an interesting movie here. But it seems that a directed with limited scope and vision thought he was making some horror masterpiece here. Instead, it's really nothing more than a big tangled up mess, and a huge disappointment.
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