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.

Hardly, does a video-game adaptation turned into a feature length film ever sound like a plausibly successful quality project. Silent Hill breaks that boundary by acquiring three well-established actors in Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean and Laurie Holden. Radha by herself delivered an outstanding performance as Rose Da Silva, a role she doesn't get near the amount of credit to which she deserves. Her believability on screen and glowing presence, just totally carried the film, I really couldn't say enough. Another aspect of the film that was endearing is it seemed the story stayed true to itself as if it was in the video game. The faceless creatures were downright terrifying, and Pyramid Head was certainly intimidating. Barring some unnecessarily dragged out scenes and confusing dialogue towards the end, the film Silent Hill is a good sleeper film that delivered a solid story and enjoyable time watching.

Very interesting scary scenes full of suspense. It makes one to feel the scenes as if them happening in real life.

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..