I saw this over the weekend with some friends. 

I thought it was okay. It wasn't great, by a far stretch, but it had moments that were pretty good. 

I think that it had a lot more potential, but that some really poor production choices let it down. 

I think that the initial sequences involving her arrival in Silent Hill are well done. You definitely get a feel for what the city was like in the games. I liked that she was spooked, but that there wasn't anything <i>particularly</i> dangerous going on. She's in a weird town that is really foggy, and she's not sure what's going on. She goes down the alley, and she can't see. The siren was a nice touch, and I liked the way that the change from limbo to nightmare was done. The ash babies were kind of neat, although a little too obviously "CG" for my taste. 

At any rate, the begining of the movie did a good job of capturing what I felt the feel of Silent Hill should be. 

Problems: 
The dialogue is *terrible*. 
The "static" effect is only used once. It's a *huge* part of the Silent Hill games, and it only comes up once? Meh.
The monsters show up for their token appearences and are never seen again. Pyramid Head shows up twice, and we never see him again?
The rather misplaced exposition sequence fairly late in the movie *really* breaks the stride of the movie. You can't build and build and build and suddenly have a character literally say "Oh, by the way, since you've made it this far, here's what really happened." That really broke the mood of the movie.

I'd have rather the movie stayed more ambiguous. I don't really want the characters to figure out what was happening, and the plot with the crazy witch-hunting cult was a little... well... stupid. 

Still, it's not a bad movie, despite these problems. If you can see it at a second run theater or maybe with a bunch of friends at a cheap matinee showing, it's probably worth it. You'll get some laughs out of some of the terrible dialogue, and there are enough cool scenes to make it a cheap thrill. 

Not as scary or as confusing as it should have been, but a far cry better than most video game movies.