A step above Mediocre at best, a step below awful at worst

Rating: 5/10 (27 March 2011)

Silent Hill is a decent adaptation of the game, but it falls flat in all other aspects. It's visuals are very nice, the feeling of isolation that the games worked so hard to create is concrete here, and there are several parts that truly feel like the game. However, having said that, it has a few too many plot holes and stupid character decisions to keep the coherency of the plot going.
The biggest, most atmosphere destroying flaw in the entire movie is Sean Bean's inclusion. For those unaware, the main character of the original silent hill game is a male, Harry Mason. However, in an attempt to create a strong female character, he was replaced with a female. No problem, on paper, but two main problems in execution: There was already a strong female character in the police officer, Sibyl Bennett, and the exclusion of a main male character created the shoehorned in Sean Bean scenes. These scenes took the atmosphere completely out of the movie, no more was there a sense of isolation. Watching Sean Bean walk around looking stunned and dumbfounded does not, believe it or not, add suspense.
In conclusion, you could do worse. However, when people say that this is a great movie, they are strenuously incorrect. It only plays off of the already perfect setup provided by the fantastic game that it's based on. A Silent Hill movie could have been done well, but, I'm sorry, it simply wasn't.