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Silent Hill (2006)
30 %
Reviews Counted: 83 Fresh: 25 Rotten:58 Average Rating: 4.6/10
Consensus:
Silent Hill is visually impressive, but as with many video game adaptations, it’s plagued by inane dialogue, a muddled plot, and an overlong runtime.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 21, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $46,982,632
Synopsis: It's always been said that a video game cannot be successfully adapted into a film. With SILENT HILL, director Christophe Gans (BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF) and screenwriter Roger Avary (KILLING ZOE) have the benefit of the atmospheric and often terrifying game series of the same name. With a... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Deborah Unger, Tanya Allen
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09/23/06
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08/25/06
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Over long with a muddled story and a gaggle of wasted talent, Silent Hill is a spectacular misfire.
08/25/06
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When everything starts being explained, the mystery evaporates and the world of the game loses its eerie bafflement.
10/31/07
If you like your nightmares served upfront without the clutter of dramatic structure, then Silent Hill should be your next stop.
07/10/07
although it is rarely if ever jump-out-of-your-seat scary, Silent Hill is an unremittingly creepy municipality of the mind where motherhood, mystery and madness have come home to stay.
06/15/07
Silent Hill starts out at point A and then goes so quickly, loudly and visually over-the-top that it flies completely off the rails into its own glorious weirdness.
03/24/07
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12/30/06
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Director Christophe Gans charges, hell-bent, right over the plot and winds up with not much more than an oppressive 125-minute running time.
09/08/06
As a fluke, I took my mom (also named Rose) to the screening. She doesn't like SF or horror and doesn't even know what a video game is, yet she ended up really liking it! How weird is that?
08/23/06
the closest you’ll get to actually having a nightmare in a movie theatre outside of a midnight screening of David Lynch’s Eraserhead.
08/21/06
While Gans admittedly shows us some pretty spooky stuff, his energy begins to flag somewhere around the 60-minute mark.
07/13/06
As a nightmarish vision of hell on earth, Silent Hill is a triumph of production and art design. As a coherent story, it's little more than a string of video game scenarios.
05/13/06
Silent Hill is like an endurance test to get to the “'truth', but it's ultimately a gyp because it still doesn't make sense when you get there.
05/13/06
Just like the game, which is an achievement and a disappointment all in one.
05/11/06
Radha Mitchell is the reason to sit through this overblown Grand Guignol entertainment from the director of the similarly overblown Brotherhood of the Wolf.
05/06/06
Sweet dreams are most assuredly not made of this, but then again, it's nice to see Uwe Boll clotheslined out of the video game-adaptation running for a while by such a smooth creeper.
05/06/06
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