Rotten
French director Christophe Gans's adaptation of the Silent Hill computer game is visually inspired and thematically ambitious, yet ultimately uninvolving.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Overview
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
Director and cast
- Christophe Gans Director
- Radha Mitchell as Rose Da Silva
- Sean Bean as Christopher Da Silva
- Jodelle Ferland as Sharon / Alessa
- Laurie Holden as Cybil Bennett
- Deborah Kara Unger as Dahlia Gillespie
- Kim Coates as Officer Thomas Gucci
- Tanya Allen as Anna
- Alice Krige as Christabella
- Nicky Guadagni as Distressed Woman
- Maxine Dumont Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
34%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Bill Gallo, Village Voice
Rotten
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
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Rotten
Silent Hill is mostly paralyzing in its vagueness.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, Silent Hill is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares.
Nathan Lee, New York Times
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