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Cool effects, but no soul and doesn't make much sense
A young girl begins sleepwalking and saying the words "silent hill" before she awakens. The girl was adopted and originally lived in West Virginia. The mother does some research and finds out there is a town called Silent Hill in West Virginia and decides to take her daughter there to find a reason for the girl's problems. Silent Hill, it turns out is a dead town, consumed by an underground mine fire, and is fenced off from civilization. The mother is pulled over by a motorcycle cop who thinks she looks suspicious. The mother thinks the cop is suspicious herself and takes off. She blows through the fence and into Silent Hill, eventually crashing to a stop. When she comes to, her daughter is gone and she searches the ominous town for her. She eventually meets up with the cop again who also crashed her motorcycle and they find that Silent Hill is a very strange and haunted place. They are attacked by creatures made of fire and ash, they watch another creature kill a woman and end up in a church with a cult that follows the whims of one paranoid, deranged woman. The mother eventually faces the creature in the darkness and learns the secrets of the town and her adopted daughter. <
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>Silent Hill is a bad movie, mainly because it has no soul. The story, while odd, is not all together original and the movie depends too heavily on effects. Some of the effects are very cool, but meaningless as far as advancing the story. Also the story does entirely make sense. Things happen that are never explained and the ending was confusing. The movie is too long for this type of film and the middle section gets pretty boring. A good actor, Sean Bean, is wasted with virtually nothing to do as the girl's father. I wasn't surprised to find out that this was adapted from a video game because with all the effects taking center stage you never get a real connection to the story.

Better than most video game movies
I havent played the games but I like this movie. I watched the whole thing and found a few scenes that didnt look right but I guess its alright. It surpasses Bloodrayne and Doom as an extremely accurate movie. Doom and Bloodrayne were just an insult to the games but this movie was well done and accurate to the games. One thing I found confusing was the ending either cause I am an idiot or didnt understand how the games were.