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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.
Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness.
Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, Silent Hill is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares.
A great-looking but stupefyingly incoherent supernatural thriller,
Though Silent Hill's shoddy dialogue and incoherent story constantly irritate, several sights and scenes possess a certain surreal grandeur.
The film is overlong, with too many unnecessary scenes (a lot of the movie seems like pointless running around), but it packs in a few scary moments and offers a nicely ambiguous conclusion.
Visually arresting but only sporadically enthralling.
I wouldn't rush to see it again, but I would definitely recommend it...
Grim horror film about missing girl. Not for kids.
Whilst not as atrocious as some other films that have opened this year, the truely woeful story and quality of Silent is saved only by its occasion moments of visual flair, and its all over effective creepy atmosphere.
When everything starts being explained, the mystery evaporates and the world of the game loses its eerie bafflement.
The latest, most ambitious and perhaps least comprehensible video game adaptation in recent memory.
... the movie's strongest assets are its visuals.
If you like your nightmares served upfront without the clutter of dramatic structure, then Silent Hill should be your next stop.
although it is rarely if ever jump-out-of-your-seat scary, Silent Hill is an unremittingly creepy municipality of the mind where motherhood, mystery and madness have come home to stay.
Silent Hill starts out at point A and then goes so quickly, loudly and visually over-the-top that it flies completely off the rails into its own glorious weirdness.
A step in the right direction for console-to-screen transitions and a twisted masterpiece of set design.
Silent Hill is one big mish-mash that doesn't make sense, doesn't come together, and doesn't scare you. Its only hope is to become so bad over time that it will eventually join the ranks of campy horror classics.
Director Christophe Gans charges, hell-bent, right over the plot and winds up with not much more than an oppressive 125-minute running time.
Over long with a muddled story and a gaggle of wasted talent, Silent Hill is a spectacular misfire.
As a fluke, I took my mom (also named Rose) to the screening. She doesn't like SF or horror and doesn't even know what a video game is, yet she ended up really liking it! How weird is that?
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