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Silent Hill Movie Review
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**1/2 out of ****
I love the Silent Hill games. I own Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill 3, and Silent Hill 4: The Room (but I haven't beaten 4 yet ^_^). Awesome games, even if sometimes the final revelations at the end aren't the mind blowing expositions that you were hoping for. I was excited when I learned about the Silent Hill movie, expecially since it had some actors in it that I like quite a bit. Radha Mitchell, most notably from Pitch Black, and Sean Bean, most notably from... well, Lord of the Rings I guess. ^_^
There were a lot of awesome things in the movie, but let us reflect for a moment on the awesomeness of Pyramid Head.
Okay, so this isn't Pyramid Head from the movie, but its an awesome picture all the same. ^_^ Movie Pyramid Head was perfect. Menacing, unspeakably horrific, INVINCIBLE! Okay, maybe I'm drawing a bit more from Silent Hill 2 here, and not the movie, but Pyramid Head in the movie really was extremely well done. I would have liked to have seen more of it, but aside from one or two scenes, Pyramid Head was notably absent.
The entire feel of the movie was great, really capturing the atmosphere of the games. From the very first moment the main character gets to Silent Hill and her car radio begins to blare the all-too-familiar static from the games (and again from the police officer's radio), it's perfect. The heavy fog clouding all of Silent Hill so you can barely make out the next few feet in front of you is perfect. The "normal" version of Silent Hill (pictured), and the "other" version of Silent Hill were both perfect. For me that was the movie's main strength-- it's overall feel, which was so close to the games.
Another cool thing about the movie was the monsters. The vaguely humanoid monsters roaming the foggy streets of the town were great, the little charred children-monsters were okay, and the nurses in the Silent Hill hospital were beautifully designed! I was pretty disappointed with the nurses- they were all standing around in a big group, and were "awakened" by light. And when they got confused and started slashing each other, it was ridiculous. Yep, as far as design goes, the nurses were awesome-- they suffered severely in behaviour.
The last "boss" in the movie was, in the grand tradition of Silent Hill endgame bosses, intimidating, impressive, and faintly ridiculous. The movie did well there too. ^_^
The movie had a lot of strengths in its similarities to the game, which undoutably made plenty of gamers (me included) more than happy, and its appealing actors. However, it suffered from a badly written script (as if we weren't all expecting that), some laughable acting, and a few unbearably cheesy moments. But for all of that, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's worth seeing in the theater if you're a fan of the games-- if you're not, you can probably wait until it comes out on video.
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