I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

I am a gamer and I enjoy films so I appreciate just how difficult film people seem to find converting a tense game into a tense film. Maybe it should be requisite for the people at the head of creativity in these kinds of films be forced to complete the game on the hardest setting; this should eliminate the idiots from the game players and ensure a truer adaptation.Admittedly I never completed Silent Hill but I played enough of it to grasp what made it work; why it was scary, tense and why gamers (blokes) liked it. The film of Silent Hill is just really poorly scripted and choreographed, the introduction of frightening characters is fluffed. It felt half-hearted and that shone through.

Silent Hill is a 2006 horror movie directed by Christophe Gans,after a script by Roger Avary,Christophe Gans and Nicolas Boukhrief.Rose DA Silva is a mother who notices that her daughter,Sharon,has a strange behavior.When Sharon disappears in Silent Hill,a village that has been abandoned for many years,she goes to look for her,but she notices that there are different strange creatures and discovers that the survivors hide in a church.In the end,she needs to make a pact with a ghost to save her daughter.From my point of view,Silent Hill is an excellent horror movie with well-placed details and with an interesting story.I saw it five or six times and I still like it.Source:www.wikipedia.ro

I've never been a real fan of Silent Hill, I just remember the series as a child; hearing about it that is and maybe playing it a few times when I was a teenager. I never knew anything about the story nor did I remember anything about it; I basically watched this movie without any knowledge of the Silent Hill world.Now on to the review:I was impressed by the movie's atmospheric psychological aspects, and room left for audience self interpretation. The self interpretation aspect however went a bit too far in the ending; I've never known the Silent Hill series was actually an alternate dimension... I believed it was a place in their 'reality' infested with some kind of monsters. The alternate reality aspect wasn't explained in too much detail, that caused me to begin to lose interest in the film and made the ending seem abrupt.

Dang, why aren't they making movies based on video games that I'm actually familiar with? Anyway, this really is one of the better video game movies, because it honestly does have really good atmosphere. I am at least familiar with some of the characters from the "Silent Hill" games, especially Pyramid Head. Oh come on, everyone's heard of Pyramid Head! So this happens to be the longest movie ever made based on a video game...until "Ace Attorney" came along. This film really was genuinely creepy at many times. Now, I think you did have to be a fan of the games to really enjoy it.I would recommend it to people who are. For people who aren't, it's just alright. I admit that the CGI is actually pretty bad at many times in this movie. Well, there are other shots that are just fine. I do kind of like the characters in this movie even if they're not that great. It actually gets confusing in the middle of the film. It's when all of these other people show up and the tone of the movie starts to change. Again, probably something from the games. It's hard to find a video game movie that would appear to fans outside the series. Still, a very nice try. **1/2