fish/fowl/Gans

Rating: 5/10 (31 May 2006)

Good thing someone told me C.Gans directed this flick - after boring me to sleep with Brotherhood of the Wolves I had this coming, tho I was glad Uwe Boll didn't seize the rights for this one.
What makes the games so creepy, yet fascinating is the almost complete lack of any explanation, it doesn't have to make any sense at all, it is just disturbing and absurd. But no, Gans had to make a nice, round story to push the audience through. Here Silent Hill suffers from the same indetermination as Crying Freeman, where Gans just disassembles the freeman's mystic character halfway and then doesn't finish it by not making him whole again with something else. The same side dish story takes away the possibility of the insane yet brilliant movie Silent Hill could have been. It's just like putting plastic arms on the Venus de Milo.