This movie failed on many levels. And while I went into it knowing... I shouldn't judge this movie by the game, some things it HAD to be done, because they threw it in there, but took away all the importance of it so they could put their crummy plot in their that makes no sense and could have been much better had they had a brain working on this film that thought about more than money.
The movie explains at some point near the beginning that the reason Sharron is back is because Rose found half the seal of Metatron and that somehow was able to be used to bring Sharron back. And Rose had to stay stuck in Silent Hill because half of it was missing. Already stupid.
One thing that bothers me, probably the most, was the appearance of Douglas. He was important in the game, and if they were to put him in the movie they should have kept him important, or just not had him at all with what few short scenes he had before just being killed off. Seriously, he comes, acts like a creeper for a minute... then another scene where he's just standing around staring at Heather, then his final scene where he explains how Harry lied to Heather about her life and then that's it, he dies. As if he really had to be there to tell her that, when she was going to go learn it herself soon anyway.
Oh, and Vincent, aaahhh Vincent. One of the coolest characters in the game for his creepy persona:
They turned him into a high school kid the same age as Heather so they could throw in a little un-needed romance. The fuck is this?
When he kissed Heather I cringed. Because when I think of Vincent I think of that first one. If they wanted to do this, they could have have a different guy all together and kept Vincent elsewhere as his normal self. I'm sure many other fans cringed as well.
Oh, so much more to say, this movie was so full of horrible. Dahlia, she showed up for... one scene, one... very useless scene. They didn't need it, if anything, it would have been better for her to meet Claudia and learn about the order and such through her, similar to in the game.. where were Heather's headache things? The birthing a god? Even the end was a let down, but I'll get to that later.
At one point Heather enters a room with a lot of mannequins, then she sees a person that turns into one, just a random girl. Then another that she attempts to save, she claims she "took a wrong turn" and ended up in Silent Hill. Yeah because Silent Hill just has anyone get stuck in there, right? Thankfully she dies pretty quickly, but it was another useless scene where they could have put something more meaningful. But I guess they wanted to show off their lame monster design.
Harry doesn't die,that was an emotional point for Heather in the game and without it, it just leaves the characters even flatter. In short, everything that would have been a good scene for the movie that was in the game and they could have used for their advantage was taken away and replaced with complete crap. I don't know how they thought their ideas were good. Even their monsters were lame. And the way they changed the Missionary monsters, man. Game Missionary:
The movie missionary:
Why, just why? They really thought that design was a good idea? And get this, Claudia turns into one of those. And there's no baby fetus eating, which was also upsetting. She just turned into this when she was handed the seal of Metatron. Oh right and Heathers battle with Alessa, if you can call it that. Didn't involve any guns or anything, it involved...
hugging.
They just stood there hugging each other till one died, which was the dark Alessa of course.
This movie was a huge jumbled mess and I don't think they really knew what they were doing, and were just trying to throw in scenes with nice effects. Important characters weren't there enough, there was no sense of dread or anything that Silent Hill should make you feel. Heather had a happy ending with her little lover Vincent.
That isn't how a horror movie should be, or how Silent Hill should be. Too happy. The way they set the end up also sounded like they may make a third movie that would be based on Silent Hill 2. Because Harry stays behind to look for Rose. So they're going to screw that up too. Already obvious by the lack of a husband killing his wife.
If they really want to make these movies, they should be making the story their own, from scratch. Not taking the games and destroying what made them worth playing and made them enjoyable.
