Keeps the spirit of the game intact
posted by Takerkain (FAIRFIELD, ME) Sep 2, 2006
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As a big Silent Hill fan, I was a bit skeptical upon going to see the movie. The previews were promising, but there was still that fear of a botched effort. While Silent Hill is not completely true to the game series, it does a remarkable job of keeping the atmosphere that makes the games special, the only problem is, that atmospehre works best when a gamer is playing through the horror and not watching someone else go through it. The movie is about a woman who takes her daughter to the town of Silent Hill after the daughter starts eerily commanding to go there while waking and asleep. The mother (played by Radha Mitchell) goes online and researches the town finding that it is one of the most haunted towns in america. Needless to say she goes there and losses her daughter after a car accident. The rest of the movie is spent with the mother, along with a cop named Cybil, searching for the daughter and finding the town exists in a freaky alternate reality. Sean Bean plays the father in the movie and spends the movie arguing with the Mitchell and at last going to the town himself to find her. A lot of the plot for the town itself is taken from Silent Hill 3, along with a bit from the first game. The biggest gripe I had with the movie was a familiar enemy from the games shows up and after the characters escape him, he's never seen again and we're not really told what happened to him. Overall, I think most fans will be satisfied by the movie, but not overly impressed by it, but it turned out a lot more faithful to the game than it could have at least.
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