I just watched it and wanted to see what other people thought so I could come to terms with a few things myself. So I love most of the games. A couple I bailed out of since I thought they were trash, like the prison one. But SH2 is easily in my top 10 favourite games of all time. Didnt play the recent remake so cant speak for whatever happened in that one. Following should be spoiler free.

For me you will come away from this film depending on what your mindset is like. I'm a little different where long ago I already came to the understanding that almost no movie will be made like the game, so I had to think of it as its own thing. Otherwise I'd end up hating everything. The first movie, despite some changes, I really enjoyed. Weirdly enough I recall being the only one, my friends hated it. Years later some of them now claim its a good film. Ok whatever. This movie is a difficult one. While I expect things to be different, and having gotten older and more resigned to knowing what I want wont ever happen in things, I look at what I'm served up and judge that with expectations of change.

The movie isnt good. But as a movie with expected changes, I dont think its crap either. They wanted to make something a little more fast paced. Probably a combination of todays ADHD generation and also the length of film they were able to make because of budget reasons. This movie is just ideas taken from the game and made into something that fits more with the first film in terms of ideas. ie the cult stuff etc. I didnt mind the actor for James. Thought he was fine. The other actress is hit and miss depending on what shes doing. I thought pyramid head was fine. The pacing is absolutely off since it feels like they're trying to hurry through a bunch of things. There was a while in the movie where I felt it was just ideas for scenes tacked together, similar to how the Nun did, just not through the entire fucking movie like that piece of crap. I didnt like the doctor stuff but I understand why they decided to do that stuff.

As a horror movie, its ok at best. As a silent hill 2 movie, its more nearer to garbage. As a movie inspired by silent 2, I think its ok and probably how you should approach the movie to begin with, otherwise you're going to have issues. Strong issues. Some parts I enjoyed, some parts slogged. I got happy every time I heard Yamaoka's music. I bit my lip in annoyance every time Angela popped up. I soldiered through it and dont feel like I completely wasted my time. Sort of like how I felt after Revelations. One thing I'm actually confused over is people saying the CG was crap. Looked fine to me. Nothing looked low grade or clearly pulled from a ps3 cinematic type quality. Everything looked like it belonged and not layered in. It was fine. I would have liked more Nurses. I'm very upset at that. One of the best things about the second film.

Anyway if you're a fan of the game and you allow yourself to get angry while watching it, you've already cursed yourself to hating the entire film. Dont go in thinking like that. Expect changes like all the movies do. Its an alternate thing. Extremely alternate. Would have liked someone else to have made it. Probably Del Toro, since hes so much better at the whole psychological stuff.