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Silent Hill (2006) Rank 1 Reviews
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Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
It's like a video game - the visual effects and the setting are carefully constructed, but without that core element provided by the player: a reason to care. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Zap2it.com (Dan Fienberg)
Had Silent Hill been directed by Peter Jackson, perhaps there would have been an explanation or justification for its 127-minute length. But Christophe Gans? Seriously? ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Zap2it.com (Dan Fienberg)
Globe and Mail (Jason Anderson)
Though Silent Hill 's shoddy dialogue and incoherent story constantly irritate, several sights and scenes possess a certain surreal grandeur. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Globe and Mail (Jason Anderson)
New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
THE best thing about most movies that open without screenings is a running time under 90 minutes - these bombs are generally cut to the bone by studios eager to squeeze in as many showings as possible before word of mouth spreads.
Not so with ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
The profoundly goofy Silent Hill is the latest entry in the spooks-stole-my-kid genre that has inexplicably been sweeping Hollywood of late. And it might just be the dumbest -- but then it is based on a video game, so that's hardly surprising. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
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The Independent (Anthony Quinn)
Mitchell makes the mistake of taking the child there, only to find herself
trapped in an ashy phantasmagoria. Hardly a single fright, and not a
fragment of sense, can be extracted from it. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at The Independent (Anthony Quinn)
Reel.com
Silent Hill could have been so much better. This latest video game movie—a cursed genre if there ever was one—should have just taken the name and not bothered with the game. They could have transformed their West Virginia mining town location ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Reel.com
New York Times (Nathan Lee)
Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, Silent Hill is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at New York Times (Nathan Lee)
ShowBIZ Data
Movie critics finally weighed in on Silent Hill over the weekend after Sony decided not to arrange advance press screenings of the movie for them. (On Friday we speculated that someone at the studio may not have gotten the word and screened it for Roger ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at ShowBIZ Data
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