We all know that video games movies are most of the time complete garbage. Movies like Alone in the Dark, Mortal Kombat Annihilation, and House of the Dead are universally hated for being terrible adaptations of the games they're based off of. But not this one. This movie is actually pretty good, for a video game movie. It has a decent cast, good writer, good special effects, and is taking one of the best video game series and turning it into a movie. This movie is destined to be a great video game movie, but is it a great movie? Not really. If we pretend that this movie isn't based off of the series we know and love, it just comes off as a mediocre horror movie you'd find on tv at 2 am. The dialogue sucks, the actors (despite some of them being good actors) really don't do that good, Sean Bean's character felt like he was just shoved in the movie (which in fact, he was) and the "scares" don't even seem like they came out of the Silent Hill series. While this may be an impressive video game movie, it isn't a very impressive movie. But hey, it is better than the sequel.

Without doubt one of the best movie adaptions of a game: full pro production, good actors (Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Jodelle Ferland), directing (Christophe Gans, the guy who directed Crying Freeman and Le pacte des loups!) and last but not least superb "graphics" and an intense sinister atmosphere. If you like(d) to play the game, I guess, you already watched the movie or if not, if you will, you will like the movie too. The second movie Silent Hill: Revelation is for sure not as strong as this one, but despite many negative critics, I like the sequel too.For the connoisseur of horror and thriller indeed Silent Hill is a great pleasure..

As most people who give this movie a low rating, I am a die hard Silent Hill fan. It's my favorite game series, I have to get that out the way, so everyone knows this is just my short, personal (and biased) opinion. To be fair to myself I watched this movie when I was about 13 years old, and at the time I didn't even know much about Silent Hill and all the metaphors and tiny details that made me like the series today, but even then, I wouldn't give the movie more than a 5 or 6. If you're a fan of the series and you know the lore, avoid the movies at all costs, if you're just someone who's looking for an average Hollywood horror to kill an hour, go for it, you probably won't find it that bad.

From the opening sequence to the arrival at Silent Hill, there seems to be a problem with the script, since the actors don't really know how to make the viewers care for the character before they split their ways. When we get to the confrontation of the film, there's no holding back from the screen-writers when it comes to the use of poor CGI. After the second plot point it seems to reveal a third act with some resolution, but that's stretched way too far into what can barely be called a climax. The basic problem with this movie is that it doesn't know when to stop.