Reviews

"One of the best films this year is a video-game movie!"

Silent Hill is the FIRST good movie based on a video game, it's not only good, it's great! The sets are done perfectly to match the ares from the games. The story is believable in the Silent Hill world and it works great in the movie world. All of the acting is done well except for Sean bean's character. The monsters (when there were any) looked great but they were sectioned off into scenes like the slither-man scene, the bug scene, the roach-men scene, etc., and the nurse scene reminded me a lot of a Marylin Manson video but they made the nurses ultra hot in a way only the Silent Hill people can make them. The soundtrack is from the same guy who does it for the games so you know it's good, they even play the intro song for the first game during the Tristar logo. The mood was set perfectly just like in the games with the fog, ash, etc. and they even gave it the grainy look from the games too. There are a few really good surprises in the film, the only one i'll give away though is that the nurse from the first game makes a small appearance.

Now, instead of kissing it's ass all the way, i'll note the substandard parts. Sean Bean's character was only added into the script because the company didn't like the fact that the movie was all female, and it shows. During the unraveling of the history of the town, it kind of looses a little steam because they had a "Crucible" thing going and it seemed like a different story altogether. There was only one cheesy scene (Rose walking through the townspeople to get to Christabella).

I give the movie an 8/10 and will own it when it comes out on DVD.

I bought this movie from a video store that was going out of business and the cover caught my eye, plus reading the very brief and cheesy back sold me into buying it. This is a good movie, it is a little cheesy but I must say, I think the Video Game company, Capcom, saw this movie and heavily used parts of this for the game Resident Evil. For example; replace Albert Wesker from R.E. with Barry Bostwick, the Tyrant with a metal werewolf and keep the main characters pretty much the same. The way Barry Bostwick dies is the same way Albert dies and the same for the werewolf dying just like the Tyrant. The story simply goes like this; in 1974, the US military goes into the Carpathian forest to find a werewolf to get it's blood and use it's DNA to create the ultimate biological weapon(like Resident Evil again)but one of the men gets too cocky and takes the blood himself and all hell breaks loose (close enough to RE to mention it again). Barry Bostwick manages to take down and put the cocky werewolf guy in deep freeze until 20 years later when technology has advanced enough to resume the project. Of course, the werewolf gets loose again and causes havoc again or else there wouldn't be a movie. It was entertaining and had some really good special effects. 7/10

i just saw this movie expecting it to really blow from reviews i've heard all around, but i saw it anyway getting the free chance. i must say, the movie was actually good. i would say it's more of an action comedy than an action horror. it also has quite a few references to the ALIEN series, freeman even says so about the red rash. SPOILER i'm not sure if it was intended but even the fact that there's a character who's nick name is joansie is immune to the alien is a reference. one bad thing about the movie is there is no resolution. the climax occurs and then 3 seconds later the credits are rolling.