Silent Hill: Revelation 3D 2012

Andy Webster, New York Times: The distinction between actors and special effects shrinks ever further in the video game-turned-horror film Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which reduces its human players to plastic action figures in tired genre settings. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: It confirms once again that with the notable exception of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, a film that feels like a videogame is never a positive development. Read more

Ethan Gilsdorf, Boston Globe: Silent Hill: Revelation 3D quickly devolves into a smorgasbord of sutured faces and blades poking the viewer in the eye. Read more

Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: An ugly, assaultive collection of jump-scares. Read more

William Goss, Film.com: Demonstrates what half the budget and twice the story can do to turn a fake nightmare into a real chore. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Silent Hill is not a place you want to go, and that applies for moviegoers as well as this videogame adaptation's characters. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: It's never a good sign when the trailers playing before a film have richer, more complete narratives than the feature you've paid to see. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: "Revelation" is incredibly boring as well as totally baffling. Read more

Miriam Bale, New York Daily News: Once the 3-D special effects look dated, this head-scratcher of a movie could be ripe to become a camp classic. But for now, the humorless approach to this inane mess is embarrassing rather than hilarious. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Only true devotees of the game are likely to recognize many of the figures on the screen, or care about a byzantine story stitched together from innumerable horror and fantasy shows. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: A cheaper, cheesier sequel that's worse than its predecessor on every level (save being a half-hour shorter) and takes no special advantage of the stereoscopic process. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: With horror altogether absent and a plot drowning in insipid convolutions, it's a film whose early warning to Heather should be heeded: "Don't go to Silent Hill." Read more