Review – Silent Hill

This production left me wondering what the future might hold for movies that turn video games into cheap vehicles for B-list celebrities and special effects. Personally, I’m looking forward to “Space Invaders: The Motion Picture” (I imagine Jack Black spending an hour and a half marching back and forth on the screen waving his arms up and down and making “meep meep meep” noises). For the picture at hand, however, the show is about as much fun as watching someone play the video game. Plot, character, even dialogue are fairly minimal in this game-to-movie horror flick given over almost entirely to art direction. Even a production that’s all about the visuals can turn out okay if the visuals are good. This one has one or two moments, but for the most part even the shocks are dull and derivative. See if desperate