Silent Hill is groundbreaking, at least in being the first such film of any cinematic merit whatsoever.
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04/21/06
Silent Hill (2006)
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Reviews Counted:82
Fresh:25
Rotten:57
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Silent Hill is visually impressive, but as with many video game adaptations, it’s plagued by inane dialogue, a muddled plot, and an overlong runtime.
Theatrical Release:21-04-2006
Synopsis: It's always been said that a video game cannot be successfully adapted into a film. With SILENT HILL, director Christophe Gans (BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF) and screenwriter Roger Avary (KILLING ZOE)... [More]
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Deborah Unger
Director: Christophe Gans
Reviews for Silent Hill
Sharon vanishes and Rose sets about finding her daughter in the not-quite deserted town, where ash falls from the sky and every setting looks like a back-lot or soundstage.
04/21/06
Despite its often-overwhelming nonsensicality, there's ultimately something irresistibly fiendish about Silent Hill.
04/21/06
Christophe Gans' convoluted, overlong adaptation of the video game Silent Hill is the worst kind of horror movie: trash that takes itself seriously.
04/21/06
The literary equivalent of Java script.
04/21/06
Had Silent Hill been directed by Peter Jackson, perhaps there would have been an explanation or justification for its 127-minute length. But Christophe Gans? Seriously?
04/21/06
[Silent Hill] starts out a suffocating fog of creepiness wrapped around a memorably malevolent child spirit, but squanders its meticulously established atmosphere on a lengthy climactic sequence.
04/21/06
[Silent Hill] 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.
04/21/06
Silent Hill starts out promisingly -- atmospheric and creepy -- but degenerates into a muddle of nonsensical plotting, dull characters and unintentional hilarity.
04/21/06
Let’s start with the running time for Silent Hill: two hours and five minutes. Totally out of control.
04/21/06
Not only can I not describe the plot of this movie, but I have a feeling the last scene reverses half of what I thought I knew (or didn't know).
04/21/06
Top CriticIn 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.
04/21/06
Top CriticWitless, soulless and joyless.
04/21/06
Top CriticEasily one of the most boring, incoherent and overproduced movies ever made. And at two full hours, it's far too much of a bad thing.
04/21/06
Beautiful on the outside, but empty within.
04/21/06
[The] first frigged-up, terrifyingly nonsensical hour ... generates a wealth of shivery imagery that I won't be able to soon forget. But, Lord, I think I may want to.
04/21/06
Think the Cirque du Soleil performed by the cast from "Saved By the Bell" knee deep in diarrhea. It may be engrossing and even embarrassingly fun, but it's also just a big disgusting mess.
04/21/06
It's like a video game - the visual effects and the setting are carefully constructed, but without that core element provided by the player: a reason to care.
04/21/06
While this latest video game adaptation will most likely thrill its legions of fans with its graphic demonic depictions, the overblown plot deters the film from being a true fright fest.
04/21/06
Uwe Boll had nothing to do with this movie, but it has his general feeling of murkiness and poor plot structure.
04/21/06
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