This movie is bad. Very, very bad. (Silent Hill (DVD))

Member Name: Zeltaen

Product:	Silent Hill (DVD)
Date:	01/05/08 (7 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: The monsters aren't all CGI, and some of the effects are pretty good.

Disadvantages: Everything else.

This is a terrible movie. I want to say that now so that anything good I say about it still does not outweigh the fact that this movie is a fantastic pile of garbage.

It's based off of a successful video game franchise, but like most films inspired by video games, it's not very good. It fails on both a basic cinematic level and also in the sense that it's not a very good representation of the video games.

I won't go too deeply into the plot, suffice to say that it's a bastardization of three very different stories, crammed into one that understandably makes little sense. The film employs the use of a christian cult to explain some of the craziness, something the game did not. Instead of the powerful admonishment of blind faith the writers obviously intended the film to have, it comes off as a high-school reading of the Crucible.

The movie is so bad I don't even want to talk about it any more. Just...just go play the games.

Summary: Don't buy, rent, or even watch this movie. Run as fast as you can in the other direction.