If you like the games, you'll like the movie.. if not...

Rating: 6/10 (1 May 2006)

Silent hill is a decent film, and it draws heavily on the imagery and the atmosphere of the computer games. Fans will notice the little touches - the music is straight out of the game, and some of the cinematography is very reminiscent of the way the camera would work in the game.
The story has the obvious parallels, but what I particularly liked was that it was not cut and dried - just like Silent Hill should be. Ambigous to the last.
If you don't like the games, or don't know them, then you will probably find whole sections of the film a boring chore - they way that the darkness is brought into the film is clever, but not as scary as it should be. To be fair, I don't see how it would have been possible to avoid the Darkness comes, goes, comes, goes, comes, goes thing. I just got the feeling that if it was niggling me, then it must really be getting to everyone else.
Generally speaking, the acting is fairly wooden, the plot is just about acceptable and the effects are good.
As far as Game to Movie goes its the best I've seen - and its still only getting a 6.