I wanted to leave the cinema but a big guy was blocking the row...

Rating: 1/10 (24 April 2006)

Like many other people I have to make a comment as to how bad this film was. When I came on IMDb and saw it had an average of 7/10 I checked I had the right film and then sat in shock for 5 minutes.
Now, I have never played the game and so accept I didn't have any rose-tinted specs on when I watched the film, I just knew it was a well liked game, apparently one of the scariest games available, and assumed it could be turned into a good film even if you didn't know the story.
It couldn't. It was far too long, not in the slightest bit scary (think Scooby Doo) and made no sense. You would think when she went to see the "demon" this would at least get your skin prickling: instead, you got a lengthly lecture from a girl about as scary and evil as the boy in the new Omen trailer. I was half expecting some architect-esquire vocab in the lecture, but this potential joke was unfortunately not there.
There was two times in the film when the screen when all white and at least 5 people in the cinema, including myself, said out loud "Please let that be the end". Sometimes in a poor film you still want to find out what happens, but in this film I had no interest in the characters that were poorly formed, badly acted and completely shallow.
As with books and computer games, you often have an urge to see the film if it is released. However, they always disappoint.
This film has a higher rating that Resident Evil which I find shocking. I never played RE either, but liked the film as at least it was to the point and did not try to be something it wasn't.
In conclusion, I have never been more relieved to see the end of a film, and everyone else I spoke to on the way out of the film felt similarly. I get the impression if I had pushed past the big guy to escape the cinema, I would have been followed by everyone who was not already asleep.