Huh?

Rating: 3/10 (23 December 2006)

I'm still trying to figure out what the heck this lousy movie was about.Well no I'm not really.I could care less.All I know was that this movie was a waste of my time and I sure wish I had my two dollar rental fee back.
To cure her adopted daughter of sleep walking the mother decides to take her to this town that the daughter keeps mumbling while she is doing her sleep walking--Silent Hill,West Virginia.The town turns out to be a coal mining town that has been abandoned.And this is about as far as I can confidently say I understood what was happening.
After they arrive the movie becomes a mish-mosh of perpetual mine fires,crazy religious folk,a kid in a burn unit and lots of rain and barb-wire.Now some of the special effects were good and some of the monster things were quite good but there just wasn't enough of that.There was way too much of flashbacks and trying to explain the storyline,whereas a good movie is made so you can kind of get the story line as the movie is happening.And not only was it boringly bad it was long.Boy was it ever long.But even if you cut this mess down by 40 minutes it would still be a waste of time.
Now maybe this movie would have made more sense if I had been familiar with the game upon which it was based.Maybe. But I shouldn't have to know the game to watch a movie.Also maybe I'll learn not to watch moves based on video games as they all tend to blow chunks.
I'm not sure who exactly liked this movie enough to give it the 6.5 average it has--gamers maybe--but it was awful.
Don't waste your time on this jumbled mess of crap.