I hadn't played SH3 in years but knew the storyline enough to follow along. The actress playing Heather looks very much like her video counterpart and carries her role well. The creepy effects deliver some nice shocks and feelings of uneasy creepy unknown. The darkness transformation is always cool and the addition of some new monsters fits right in with the theme. Silent Hill looks great and the creepy hallways and spooky sound effects make it suspenseful. That being said ,it's far too short which is one of the drawbacks, not exploring the characters enough especially Alessa who is barely in the movie even though she is central to the games plot. We also have Claudia and Leonard , played by Carrie Ann Moss and Malcolm McDowell, game actors but their parts are terribly small and underwritten. While McDowell does get to ham it up as a psycho locked in an asylum, Moss basically has 10 minutes of screen time and has nothing to work with here.
The ending of the movie is also weak .Not only is it abrupt but it changes everything about the way the game ended including the final fight. It turns into a battle between Pyramid Head and Claudia in her dark form , where as in the game Heather swallows a substance within a pendant that her father had given her, Heather vomits out the deity in fetus form. Claudia swallows the fetus and dies after birthing the deity; Heather then fights and defeats the god. I don't know why they changed the ending and cut short the film. One can only imagine what was left on the cutting room floor and of course the final scene is a hint to Silent Hill:Downpour with police cars and a prison transport vehicle heading into Silent Hill as the ash starts falling again when it had previously stopped with the death of Alessa and Claudia. If they do make a sequel they need to make it longer and really write it better.
The ending of the movie is also weak .Not only is it abrupt but it changes everything about the way the game ended including the final fight. It turns into a battle between Pyramid Head and Claudia in her dark form , where as in the game Heather swallows a substance within a pendant that her father had given her, Heather vomits out the deity in fetus form. Claudia swallows the fetus and dies after birthing the deity; Heather then fights and defeats the god. I don't know why they changed the ending and cut short the film. One can only imagine what was left on the cutting room floor and of course the final scene is a hint to Silent Hill:Downpour with police cars and a prison transport vehicle heading into Silent Hill as the ash starts falling again when it had previously stopped with the death of Alessa and Claudia. If they do make a sequel they need to make it longer and really write it better.