If you've haven't played the games... you may have a hard time understanding this movie

Rating: 4/10 (22 April 2006)

If you've never played the 'Silent Hill' video games series, you will probably be lost during this movie. The town of Silent Hill has three 'realities'; 1)Silent Hill, ghost-town 2)Foggy Silent Hill where they see demons, falling ash 3)Third is personal hell/nightmarish Silent Hill.
The movie, Silent Hill starts off with the little girl missing from her home & the parents go looking for her, once they find her, she is about to fall off a large embankment. Her mother saves her and the girl begins screaming the name, "Silent Hill." Soon the mother takes her to Silent Hill & the adventure begins. The movie has storyline elements from the first 4 Silent Hill games. -Has the storyline of SH1, -Red Pyramid from SH2, -Female protagonist from SH3 -the blood patterns, etc from SH4.
The characters in Silent Hill go back what Silent Hill really looks like to an alternate "nightmarish" world. Rose begins looking for her daughter, Sharon, with the help of a biker cop named Cybil. The two go throughout Silent Hill looking for Sharon while transcending back & fourth into "Foggy Silent Hill" & "Nightmare Silent Hill". Meanwhile her Rose's husband begins searching for his wife but he's in "real Silent Hill", so they can't see each other.
The reason I gave this 4/10, is because I felt the movie was a real let-down. The movie falls into my theory on most horror movies, 'it's good up until the half way point and than they don't know how to end it.'Meaning, they pull you into the movie but the rest is a total let down. The ending was just absurd & pointless in my opinion. Personally I felt this movie was a big disappointment. But the cinematography was beautiful and the town looked amazing. Also the acting was pretty good by everyone in the movie.
But again, A lot of people were laughing during the movie at points & some even walked out. Just don't expect too much. A lot of people at the end of the movie, didn't get it and were asking each other what was going on. I only knew because I played the games.