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kistasha1407

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Unlike other video game movies, this is actually a very well done movie and the first gore fest movie I have ever seen. I liked it a lot and loved the darkness of the little girl Alessa.

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Posted nov 7, 2008 11:37 am pt

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Silent Hill, in my point of view is one of the best video games ever made. The bueatifully dark enviornments of the games, and more importantly the stories of the games is what makes Silent Hill a consistent joy to play.

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Silent Hill, in my point of view is one of the best video games ever made. The bueatifully dark enviornments of the games, and more importantly the stories of the games is what makes Silent Hill a consistent joy to play.

When I first heard there was going to be a film adaptation of thse brilliant games by Knoami, I was the first person in line to see this film, and boy, I wish I wasn't in that line at all...

Silent Hill is a film that had huge potential. It is based on one of the best horror games in the business, and had great actors such as Rhada Mitchell playing roles of the characters from the games. The actors do a reasonable job on this one, and the set design still keeps the dark, creepy and ominious enviornments of the hugely popular game franchise, but, it's all due to one flaw:

the script.

The script in Silent Hill is one of the most flat peices of writing in movie history. The games lack the strong, concerning emotion of whenever a zombie appears or whenever somebody dies as they do in the game, all most of the characters do is just stand there and keep a straight face.

The only minor reedeeming qualities of this film are the fact it follows the plot of the first game pretty closely, and contains the most popular Silent Hill character: Mary as the main character, but sadly these things are nothing essential to pioneer the film forward.

Overall, Silent Hill is another typical gane adaptated film, with the same overall lack of effort and poor writing like the rest.

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Posted apr 24, 2008 4:18 am pt

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When I first saw Silent Hill was going to be in the theatres, I thought (like the rest of you) it was going to be a badly made movie (bad special effects and actors/actresses).

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When I first saw Silent Hill was going to be in the theatres, I thought (like the rest of you) it was going to be a badly made movie (bad special effects and actors/actresses).

I must say when I saw this I was stunned to see that the animations were very well done, and the acting met (didnt exceed) my liking. The eerieness mystery mist terrifying monsters and the music (I liked it a lot!) made this movie quite worth seeing for the game lovers and horror lovers. 5/5 =]

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Posted apr 15, 2008 5:58 am pt

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Silent Hill Review by Simon.

I’m a big FAN off the Silent Hill game series and I was dead excited when I found out they were making the movie but I actually thought that it would just be like the other game-to-film movies,...
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Silent Hill Review by Simon.

I’m a big FAN off the Silent Hill game series and I was dead excited when I found out they were making the movie but I actually thought that it would just be like the other game-to-film movies, ‘Dull and Disappointing’. But actually, Silent Hill I would say is the best game-to-film movie out there. I did think that the film was disappointing at some point but it was a good film none the less.

The Plot: 3/5
Based on the best-selling horror game, Silent Hill stars Radha Mitchell as Rose, Not Harry Mason, a desperate mother who takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, Not Cheryl Mason, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. Not like in the game were Harry Mason and his adopted daughter go to Silent Hill for a holiday break. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins her desperate search to get her back. She descends into a fog of smouldering ash and into the centre of the twisted reality of a town’s terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creature and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years ago.
Once you are in Silent Hill, there is no turning back.

Good Points:
The story is some what the same.
The Soundtrack is excellent and is also done but the man who did the game soundtrack Akira Yamaoka who is also the executive producer. The Silent Hill feel is brilliant.
Monster and creature design.
Some parts of the film were well acted.
Jodelle Ferland was great as Sharon? Why didn’t they name her Cheryl like in the game? And Alessa.
The Red Pyramid Head.

Bad Point:
No Harry Mason.
No Dr. Michael Kaufmann.
The fact that the main character is a female. Nothing wrong with female characters, it’s just I would have like it better if it was a male character and his name was Harry.
Some points in the film feel weak.
Some acting felt dull and over the top, I.e. - Laurie Holden as Cybil Bennett and Sean Bean as Christopher Da Silva Who was he in the game?
Some parts of the story was different from the game. I know they were trying to make something different for the viewers to see but as a fan of the game series, I would have liked it better if it were the same as the original first games story.
The ending was some what weak I thought.
Dahlia Gillespie is a good person? They made someone else the main bad person. What’s that all about? I thought that was a let down. Lisa Garland, the nurse from the first game is called Anna in the film and she doesn’t have a big role in the film as she did in the game.
Even though The Red Pyramid Head was cool and was the only real thing Besides the music that really made the film ‘Silent Hill’ I felt as if he really shouldn’t have been in the film. The Red Pyramid Head is James’s enemy from Silent Hill 2. It just didn’t feel right seeing him in the film without there being and James Sunderland. There are people who live in Silent Hill. They’ve lived in the church for just about 30 years. How did they get food to have survived all this time?

Over All: 3/5
The Film was good and I did enjoy it. I found some parts a wee bit off. I just wish they did it the same as the first game. But it certainly is the best game-to-film out there right now.

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Posted jan 12, 2008 5:23 pm pt

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I thought this was going to be terrible, but like a lot of you. I would say the movie wasn't that bad. But still, it was pretty stupid in places.

The animation at times was poor, the dark elements all played out rather nicely and the...
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I thought this was going to be terrible, but like a lot of you. I would say the movie wasn't that bad. But still, it was pretty stupid in places.

The animation at times was poor, the dark elements all played out rather nicely and the style was well made. I do like the detective style, bits here and there as you go through the film.

Really know, the acting could of been a bit better in places, but still wasn't too bad. I do like the twists at the end.

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Posted jan 7, 2008 1:56 am pt

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I have to say I thought this would be awful. I was pleasantly surprised. I have never played the games but I know they were very popular. This movie, while very entertaining, did have a few drawbacks like some of the acting was substandard and...
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I have to say I thought this would be awful. I was pleasantly surprised. I have never played the games but I know they were very popular. This movie, while very entertaining, did have a few drawbacks like some of the acting was substandard and there were a couple cheesy gimmicks in it. Overall, a good horror flick.

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Posted dec 31, 2007 6:41 am pt

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Movie very good the only thing is that when I watched the behind the scences thay said that they where going to use the realy actors and not animated scences.That was not true movie would have been better for me if they did.still very good movie.

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Posted dec 14, 2007 7:43 am pt

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Finally we're getting somewhere. This is perhaps the only game made into a film that doesn't suck. Not to mention that Silent Hill is one of my favorite game series. Yaaay! The film is loosely based on the first Silent Hill game, HOWEVER, it has a...
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Finally we're getting somewhere. This is perhaps the only game made into a film that doesn't suck. Not to mention that Silent Hill is one of my favorite game series. Yaaay! The film is loosely based on the first Silent Hill game, HOWEVER, it has a few pieces of Silent Hill 2 thrown in there too making it a whole lot twistier. If your a fan of Silent Hill, you're gonna love this. The story is great, the monster are perfect and horribly scary, as for the acting... could be better but nevertheless, the little girl does a great job. Silent Hill is a game made into a film that is great!

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Posted nov 24, 2007 2:42 am pt

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This was the best game to movie i have ever seen it follow the games qutie good. It looked just like the games with the locations and bulidings and the monsters were spot on and i really enjoyed the movie

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Posted nov 6, 2007 11:12 pm pt

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This whole review summed up in one sentence is that this is the best video game to movie ever.Its only problem I found when I saw this for the first time was that there is alot of talking.Though there are tons of freaky looking monsters and it...
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This whole review summed up in one sentence is that this is the best video game to movie ever.Its only problem I found when I saw this for the first time was that there is alot of talking.Though there are tons of freaky looking monsters and it stays true to the game so if you like the game then see the movie

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Posted nov 2, 2007 5:23 am pt

• [+] ReelViews
  
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  It packs in a few scary moments and offers a nicely ambiguous conclusion. In Silent Hill, atmosphere trumps storyline.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  60
  A step in the right direction for console-to-screen transitions and a twisted masterpiece of set design. Ultimately, though, it's a little too much like watching someone else play the game.

  by James Dyer | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  50
  Runs out of story a good half hour before it runs out of spooky images, but it comes to a quietly chilling conclusion far more haunting than any bloody mayhem.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  50
  Works up a decent amount of solid, creep-show atmosphere in its first act before making some absurd decisions of its own in its second.

  by Jan Stuart | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
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  Silent Hill's main attraction, for genre fans, certainly, lies not in its plot nor in its characters (you could place anyone in this particular township and whatever might happen, you could be sure it'd be unnerving), but in its relentlessly nightmarish imagery.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
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  Recommended to those who feel "The Crucible" doesn't feature enough bodies ripped in half vertically. Others are duly warned.

  by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
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  As I sat through this two hour stumble through what looked like fog, I just kept thinking to myself how this might be the best looking bad film I've ever seen.

  by Don R. Lewis | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
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  Horror maestro Christophe Gans ("Brotherhood of the Wolf") directed this feature, worth seeing for the zombie nurses who gyrate like a Bob Fosse chorus line before slicing each other to ribbons.

  by Andrea Gronvall | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
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  In the end, Silent Hill degenerates into an overblown replay of all those "Twilight Zone" and Stephen King stories in which outsiders stumble upon a time-warped location from which there's no escape.

  by Dennis Harvey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
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  Stuffed with cheap effects and devoid of tension, this French-Japanese-U.S. co-production contributes exactly zilch to the rich film history of those three nations; the most horror-crazed teen may be hard-pressed to find any authentic thrills here.

  by Bill Gallo | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
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  Although I did not understand the story, I would have appreciated a great deal less explanation. All through the movie, characters are pausing in order to offer arcane back-stories and historical perspectives and metaphysical insights and occult orientations. They talk and talk and somehow their words do not light up any synapses in my brain.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
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  Though Silent Hill's shoddy dialogue and incoherent story constantly irritate, several sights and scenes possess a certain surreal grandeur...Sadly, that's not enough to compensate for Silent Hill's utter lack of tension, intrigue, character development or satisfactory explanations for what the hell's happening on the screen.

  by Jason Anderson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
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  A few of the images are startling, but as Radha Mitchell (a good actress) wanders through a ghost town, searching for her lost daughter as though she was touring an abandoned movie set, Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
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  Buried beneath Silent Hill's hyper-stylized stupidity (the film looks like a collaboration between David Fincher, Trent Reznor and music video director Mark Romanek) is the hollow effort to bottle something of the zeitgeist unease surrounding religious fundamentalism.

  by Ernest Hardy | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
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  A great-looking but stupefyingly incoherent supernatural thriller adapted from a popular video game that ransacks the entire catalog of horror film tropes for more than two mind-numbing hours.

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »