Silent Hill *

After the failure of last year's Doom, you would think that Hollywood might have learned that video games and movies just do not mix. Sadly, that isn't the case and I was forced to sit through the atrocity that is Silent Hill. The basic plot, if you could even call it a plot, concerns Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchell), a mother who decides to take her daughter (Jodelle Ferland) to a faith healer after learning that she has contracted a fatal disease. However, on the way there, they cross through a portal and find themselves in the haunted, deserted town of Silent Hill, where her daughter goes missing. Rose is then left to search for her daughter and dodge countless horrific creatures and demons with the help of a tough policewoman called Cybil (Laurie Holden). Believe it or not, this is actually worse than Doom. There is no coherent plot, and it is virtually impossible to understand. It tries to be both an action film and a supernatural thriller, and that combination obviously doesn't work. Silent Hill is an unintelligible, mind-numbingly stupid mess of a film and should never have been made. Some might say I would have enjoyed it more if I had played the game. Highly doubtful.