The best game adaption to date! ^_^

Rating: 10/10 (12 October 2006)

In comparison to "Mortal Kombat", "Street Fighter", "Dead or Alive" (In cinemas recently) or the horrible "out-of-the-games-by-atmosphere" Movies "Resident Evil" (I LOVE the Games, heavily addicted)and many others, "Silent Hill" managed to stay close to the game.
The Element of using the Music from Games 1-4 was congenius. Therefore fans of the games had Elements to get stuck to.
The plot ranged between Silent Hill 1 and 3, the creatures were all taken out from Part 2 (except the "Crawling Creature in the toilet from the school) Since 1 and 3 were connected together in storyline, and had the sickest atmosphere, it is very good they stayed so close to this plot.
Atmosphere, lights, camera angles and the costumes of all the creatures were amazing, VERY Close to the games design and atmosphere. You felt like playing it again without controller and therefore an even more helpless feeling, witnessing what would happen next.
Even Locations of the games were taken or slightly "passed", like "Annie's Bar" which the main character passed running through deserted Silent Hill. The School, the ever-present Hospital... everything was there, sadly not the "Lakeside Amusement Park" ^_0 Would have been stranger....
The only three "downs" of this movie were... 1) Too less "creatures"... Since fighting is one of the recognizable Elements of the Games, the movie offered a lot of Creatures like the Cockroaches, the psychological Enemy "Pyramid Head" from James Sunderland's mind (Silent Hill 2) and the great Nurses (in Game 2 the best look) but in the movie they all show up for a short time, nonetheless in overwhelming amounts. 2) The long "Monologue" from Alessa/Cheryl/Sharon explaining everything, it gives the movie some "length" for those who played the games, for others, it's vital for understanding. 3) The ending. It is great, but from the movies point of view not understandable, without having played the games, where a character was NEVER Able to escape the "fangs" of Silent Hill.
To me, it fits perfect in the line of Horror-Classics like "Thing", "The Fog", "House of a 1000 corpses", "Tesis", "Nightwatch", "Near Dark" ans so on.... IF you HAVE played the Games...WATCH IT! If not... it has it's ups and sadly, some "downs"
TheHOINK ^_^