Reviews

A decent film, but not really worthy of the Madame Bovary name. Good in that, as the only decent French production, it has a handle on the original work, but still very weak in plot selection and handling of the characters in adapting to the screen.

Highly recommend selecting another more recent release, either from the UK or United States.

Characters such as Emma and Charles come off as very one-dimensional, and the acting for Rodolphe Boulanger de la Huchette is absolutely over-the-top bad (to the point of being utterly hilarious.) The entire film will remind you of classic "can't believe it's not butter" commercials with Fabio.

This film brings around the old adage that a good story doesn't equal a good movie. I guess, when it comes down to it, we should revamp that to "a good video game doesn't equal a good story." While loosely adapted from Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2, mostly all you find is the feel of the games in the film, and no quality content. This movie, as one other reviewer stated, just got worse and worse. There were no redeeming moments for the actors (note that I said actors, not characters) after the first ten minutes, and every scene was more poorly developed than the last. This means, as was previously stated, that EVERY scene you watch is , as yet, the worst scene in the whole movie. It just keeps going like that all the way to a shoddy, rather hastily thrown together ending not at all congruent with the quality typical to the Silent Hill video game franchise's plot sequences. Furthermore, the addition of Sean Bean's character at the last minute just to balance the lack of male characters in the film does not help to do anything but muddy the waters as Bean does his best to act as a strange version of a Greek chorus with no frame of reference to the action that is actually significant. BAD BAD BAD. The only good thing about this movie are the visuals, and I can say the same thing of the House of Wax remake, and we all remember how that turned out.

Rent it from blockbuster, but NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU LOVED THE GAMES, do not go see this in theaters.