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Silent Hill (2006) Rank 2 Reviews
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Empire Magazine (James Dyer)
It's this unwavering fidelity to the source material that is also the film's biggest problem. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Empire Magazine (James Dyer)
EnPrimeur.ca (Nicolas Lacroix)
Les images tordues du film sont impossible à oublier... ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at EnPrimeur.ca (Nicolas Lacroix)
filmcritic.com (Keith Breese)
the closest you’ll get to actually having a nightmare in a movie theatre outside of a midnight screening of David Lynch’s Eraserhead. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at filmcritic.com (Keith Breese)
eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
the filmmakers may be hedging too many bets, trying to make the film both acceptable to fans and accessible to newcomers. But while SILENT HILL is far from perfect, it is at the very least a valiant effort ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
Cinematical (Scott Weinberg)
Not much more than a "haunted town" thrill-ride, with only a few plot points tossed in to keep things moving, Silent Hill truly is a feast for the eyes -- provided your eyeballs aren't too squeamish. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Cinematical (Scott Weinberg)
CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Alberto Cassani)
El Criticon (Antonio Méndez Casanova)
Boxoffice Magazine
Absolutely atrocious, "Silent Hill" is probably the worst movie ever to be based on a video game. Those types of adaptations are almost always bad -- video games, for the most part, are not known for deep meaning -- but "Silent Hill" sinks to new lows of ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
The literary equivalent of Java script. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
The story is so unoriginal and uninvolving that you may find yourselves wishing the drippy, howling, viscera-smeared creatures would take Mitchell and the other humans out. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
[ Silent Hill ] starts out a suffocating fog of creepiness wrapped around a memorably malevolent child spirit, but squanders its meticulously established atmosphere on a lengthy climactic sequence. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (Mark Collette)
Striking visuals tell a story where words aren't necessary ... until that turning point, when dull dialogue, a complicated plot and cheesy graphics start to muddle things. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (Mark Collette)
Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
This is an average movie, and not what Slient Hill , a standout, resonant game series, deserves. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
rec.arts.movies.reviews (David N. Butterworth)
Radha Mitchell is the reason to sit through this overblown Grand Guignol entertainment from the director of the similarly overblown Brotherhood of the Wolf. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (David N. Butterworth)
MovieJuice! (Mark Ramsey)
Somehow the knowledge that you are three degrees of separation from Dabney Coleman and a computer called W.O.P.R. transforms trite claptrap into the words of the Bard himself. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at MovieJuice! (Mark Ramsey)
Hollywood.com (Kit Bowen)
While this latest video game adaptation will most likely thrill its legions of fans with its graphic demonic depictions, the overblown plot deters the film from being a true fright fest. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Hollywood.com (Kit Bowen)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Suggests the surreal, almost post-narrative horror movies of Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and other directors who favor the emotional impact of bold, grotesque imagery over story logic. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Have you ever played the video game Silent Hill I have. To me Silent Hill can easily be summed up with one word: frustrating. You walk around the abandoned town of Silent Hill which is covered in a foggy ash searching for clues to help you find ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
FilmFocus.Co.UK (Nick Milner)
DVD Talk (Joshua Zyber)
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Note: I'm told that if you are intimately familiar with the "Silent Hill" video game, the film makes a lot more sense. That may be true. But sensical or not, it would still be repetitive and dull. SO THERE. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
The Dallas Morning News
You wouldn't think Silent Hill was written by a former Oscar
winner, but sure enough, the screenplay springs from the pen of Roger
Avary, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction co-scribe. He won't win
any awards ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at The Dallas Morning News
Newsday
Far be it for me to dispense advice to mothers of little girls with vexing mental health issues. Still, if my kid were sleepwalking her way toward mile-high gorges and drawing violent pictures while babbling about some mysterious ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Newsday
The King's Room (Clyde Ayles)
"Silent Hill", I understand, is another movie
based on a game. Well, I can't say much about the game, I am not
familier with it, but I can make my comments on the film, directed
by ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at The King's Room (Clyde Ayles)
efilmcritic.com (Uri Lessing)
Think the Cirque du Soleil performed by the cast from "Saved By the Bell" knee deep in diarrhea. It may be engrossing and even embarrassingly fun, but it's also just a big disgusting mess. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at efilmcritic.com (Uri Lessing)
IGN Movies (Jeff Otto)
Beautiful on the outside, but empty within. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at IGN Movies (Jeff Otto)
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Chris Gonzalez)
eFilmCritic.com (Dawn Taylor)
An abject failure as a horror film, offering gorgeous Clive Barker-inspired art direction run amuck with nothing actually scary going on. ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Dawn Taylor)
Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
It comes as no surprise that the film was directed by the French filmmaker Christophe Gans, whose similarly good-looking but disappointing “Brotherhood of the Wolf” was the highest grossing French film ever and was, ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Entertainment Weekly
Even a horror movie designed to tickle the mossy twisted underside of your brain has to be rooted in some sort of earthly logic. Silent Hill just about slathers its psychedelic sadism on toast: a burned and vengeful girl, her barb-wire tentacles ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Entertainment Weekly
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
I had a nice conversation with seven or eight people coming down on the escalator after we all saw "Silent Hill." They wanted me to explain it to them. I said I didn't have a clue. They ...read the complete Silent Hill movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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