Ok any film buff worth their weight in goobers know that movies which are adaptations of video games almost always fall flat. Seriously 99.9% of the time. Fighting games: Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 and Street Fighter (oh it is soooo bad). Adventure: Tomb Raider. Platformer: Mario Brothers. First person shooter: Doom. Any of these movies I mentioned here are terrible, in both pointlessness and especially in not keeping true to the spirit of the original content. Now the review here is for yet another movie based on a game. This one unlike the aforementioned does not rank high on the lame-o-meter. Silent Hill was a game for the original Playstation. I never actually did get around to playing it. I thought it was a poor mans Resident Evil when I spied it, and I just kinda ignored it. I hear it is an amazing game, at least for the time.
Now Silent Hill has a few things going for it. First off is that the director is the same guy that brought us "Brotherhood of the Wolf". Yes this guy is French. Silent Hill though is in English. Second he plays video games. Third he really liked Silent Hill way back when he played it and hence had always wanted to make it into a movie. Well the movie does not follow the plot 100% from the game. Some characters are modified, deleted and added. The main character is now a woman. Overall though I believe the plot is very close to the game. Please someone correct me if I am wrong.
The plot is interesting, you probably will be wondering what will happen next. It could get boring but the effects and cinematography are top notch. The monsters are also very cool. In keeping with the spirit of the game (according to the director) the camera work does some very unique things. Sweeping shots which float you from one place to another occur a few times and give the movie a voyeuristic feel. I would recommend to any horror movie fan this movie. Most people that see it probably don't even know it is based on a game.
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