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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.
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More deadly than silent. Aug 25, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
More deadly than silent.
Paul Byrnes
Maybe it's the kudos acquired by screenwriter Roger Avary in his association with Quentin Tarantino that has allowed him to write this unbelievably boring horror-thriller. May 6, 2006 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Maybe it's the kudos acquired by screenwriter Roger Avary in his association with Quentin Tarantino that has allowed him to write this unbelievably boring horror-thriller.
Peter Bradshaw
French director Christophe Gans's adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving. May 6, 2006 | Full Review…
French director Christophe Gans's adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving.
Nigel Floyd
Silent Hill? Nonsenseville, more like. May 6, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Silent Hill? Nonsenseville, more like.
Paul Arendt
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. May 2, 2006
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.
Bill Gallo
The film's peculiar rhythms%u2014action, exposition, action, exposition%u2014betray its video-game roots, but audiences unfamiliar with the Silent Hill series can be forgiven for thinking that the game asks players to run from place to place, shouting a l Apr 27, 2006 | Rating: C-
The film's peculiar rhythms%u2014action, exposition, action, exposition%u2014betray its video-game roots, but audiences unfamiliar with the Silent Hill series can be forgiven for thinking that the game asks players to run from place to place, shouting a l
Scott Tobias
An atmospheric, disturbing and bloody movie, very true to the video games. [Full review in Spanish] Feb 27, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
An atmospheric, disturbing and bloody movie, very true to the video games. [Full review in Spanish]
Sebastian Zavala Kahn
Visually arresting but only sporadically enthralling. Jan 22, 2010 | Full Review…
Visually arresting but only sporadically enthralling.
Gary Dowell
It's one of the best video game adaptations I've seen in years. Apr 29, 2009 | Full Review…
It's one of the best video game adaptations I've seen in years.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
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. Jan 15, 2008 | Full Review…
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.
Garth Franklin
When everything starts being explained, the mystery evaporates and the world of the game loses its eerie bafflement. Oct 31, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
When everything starts being explained, the mystery evaporates and the world of the game loses its eerie bafflement.
Rob Gonsalves
The latest, most ambitious and perhaps least comprehensible video game adaptation in recent memory. Jul 14, 2007 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
The latest, most ambitious and perhaps least comprehensible video game adaptation in recent memory.
Joe Lozito
First time watching this since 2006, but original 5 star rating holds. Very creepy and disturbing.
Super Reviewer
Gans deserves praise for investing in the movie's atmosphere with an evocative cinematography and several stunning sets that look incredibly disturbing and creepy as hell - but even so, some of the scenes are way too uncomfortably graphic and the CGI creatures look atrocious.
I was impressed. Never played the games and the movie was a good plot and interesting characters and great backdrop. Loved it.
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