Return to Silent Hill

As a fan of the game, I walked in with zero expectations and still left disappointed. Christophe Gans doesn't seem to understand Silent Hill 2—he just wanted to capture 'pretty frames.' Showing James's face through a crack in Pyramid Head's helmet as some kind of artistic statement is so on-the-nose it made me laugh. Yet here's the tragedy: despite how bad it is, I still found myself hoping he would find Mary. When the film failed to deliver that devastating moment from the game—'I learned to hate the rain'—I finally understood what we lost: the power of silence and implied grief. Still, when Akira Yamaoka's score swelled, my hair stood on end. Those melodies carry a soul this film never earned.