Silent Hill 2006

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Let's start with the running time for Silent Hill: two hours and five minutes. Totally out of control. Read more

Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Silent Hill has plenty of bad acting, bad dialogue and a confusing plot -- all of which become exponentially more painful when the movie goes on forever. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: The film's peculiar rhythms%u2014action, exposition, action, exposition%u2014betray its video-game roots, but audiences unfamiliar with the Silent Hill series can be forgiven for thinking that the game asks players to run from place to place, shouting a l Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The makers of the movie you're slogging through will spare no expense to demonstrate how much they hate us. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Too long by about a half hour, very much in love with its own excessive style, it still manages to be kinda creepy, at least when it stops taking its metaphysics too seriously. Read more

Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Sharon vanishes and Rose sets about finding her daughter in the not-quite deserted town, where ash falls from the sky and every setting looks like a back-lot or soundstage. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: [Silent Hill] works up a decent amount of solid, creep-show atmosphere in its first act before making some absurd decisions of its own in its second. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Christophe Gans' convoluted, overlong adaptation of the video game Silent Hill is the worst kind of horror movie: trash that takes itself seriously. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The film is overlong, with too many unnecessary scenes (a lot of the movie seems like pointless running around), but it packs in a few scary moments and offers a nicely ambiguous conclusion. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Not only can I not describe the plot of this movie, but I have a feeling the last scene reverses half of what I thought I knew (or didn't know). Read more

Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: Though Silent Hill's shoddy dialogue and incoherent story constantly irritate, several sights and scenes possess a certain surreal grandeur. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: This one is dumber than a bag of coffin nails, despite the directing hand of Christophe Gans. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: French director Christophe Gans's adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: In the end, Silent Hill degenerates into an overblown replay of all those Twilight Zone and Stephen King stories in which outsiders stumble upon a time-warped location from which there's no escape. Read more

Bill Gallo, Village Voice: Stuffed with cheap effects and devoid of tension, this French-Japanese-U.S. co-production contributes exactly zilch to the rich film history of those three nations. Read more