The first good video game movie since the original Mortal Kombat

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2006)

As is evident in my summary, I believe that Mortal Kombat is the only other half decent video game based movie, with the rest being a complete joke. With that being in my mind every time I saw something new about Silent Hill before its release, I didn't really hold high hopes for it before going to see it. I believe that I was dead wrong.
The only thing that really makes the game was done beautifully in the movie, and that's the environments. Anyone that's played the games knows that the areas of Silent Hill are what make it so creepy. The sets of the film were very well designed, and the transition of "The Darkness" of Silent Hill were quite amazing. Now, I've never played the first game all the way through, so saying that they stayed true to the first game completely would be hear-say (as I've heard from someone else that they did).
The creatures of the town were designed very well, and the nurses toward the end (can be seen in some trailers) moved the way I remember them from Silent Hill 3. I was only slightly displeased with them because they seemed to "swarm" a bit more than they did in the games, but I'm not going to call this a reason to pass on the movie. I must say that the trailers don't seem to do it justice, really. The movie is....a bit brutal at points. Definitely a great movie for fans of the series, or just horror movie fans in general.