Silent Hill - Dir: Christophe Gans

I was looking forward to this - great subject matter and a director (Christophe Gans) who had done some interesting stuff previously including Crying Freeman and Brotherhood of the Wolf. Visually this film is very reminiscent of the game, bleak and washed out. The story however is completely messed up and doesn't really flow. Disappointing again because it was written by Roger Avary, whose work on Killing Zoe, Pulp Fiction and Rules of Attraction I admired. It's also not as scary as I was expecting, which is pretty much a killer for a horror thriller flick. Sean Bean is ok but it's not really the sort of material he works with best. This is a JM THUMBS DOWN.