"Very unfairly silent."

Rating: 5/10 (9 May 2014)

Many years before anyone expected Silent Hill to become a video game film, many people before that time excluded the idea of it being 'the worst', but also in most cases 'the best', for any attempt into being portrayed as the perfect adaptation based on a popular franchise that quickly - and subjectively - went downhill after the second sequel (Silent Hill 3). With this film being loosely based on the first installment, there's a lot of shoes to fill and plenty of time to adjust viewers to the story.
Unfortunately, many important things was changed from the original story and that alone shows that yet again a video game film adaptation has failed to simply stay closer to the source material rather than create an entirely new story that will contradict the chronological order the actual games set into place. But that's not to say some of the changes are all bad, because it was an interesting change to see the original male protagonist, Harry Mason, changed to a new female character, Rose, that still follows the main story without being too damaging.
The original plot followed a man that attempts to find his lost daughter, Cheryl, in an abandoned ghost town named Silent Hill for most of the similar reasons Rose does. But Rose is there for an even bigger excuse as her daughter has nightmares about the area. For most of the film, the cast and crew attempts their hardest to capture the essence of the original series, in ways, and only manages...in milder ways. Though it's a very tough adaptation to dislike, it's also a very tough adaptation to care for as some fans may feel just as disappointed with the changes and overall execution of everything.
Yes, it's nostalgic and fun to see familiar faces and areas revisited on film, but Silent Hill doesn't completely live to the name - it's very unfairly silent.