SummaryEverything that farmer Graham Hess (Gibson) assumed about the world is changed when he discovers a message - an intricate pattern of circles and lines - carved into his crops. (Touchstone Pictures)
SummaryEverything that farmer Graham Hess (Gibson) assumed about the world is changed when he discovers a message - an intricate pattern of circles and lines - carved into his crops. (Touchstone Pictures)
For filmgoers whose idea of a good time is getting the stuffing scared out of them (who are you guys, anyway?), Signs should prove to be time well spent.
Scary, funny, sad, unpredictable, horrifying, creepy, mystifying, and gripping is everything that describes how brilliant this movie is. From start to finish you don't see anything coming. This is one of the scariest movies I have ever seen and one of the best movies I have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mel Gibson is fantastic for his role and so is everyone else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! M. Night Shyamalan has created a masterpiece.
Signs -- though Shyamalan's most visually beautiful work -- seems thinner, barely more than a sketch for a movie, with characters trapped in formulas. Beautifully trapped perhaps -- but paralyzed nonetheless.
Shyamalan wants to be the metaphysical poet of movies, but he's dangerously close to becoming its O. Henry. The best surprise ending he could give us in his next movie would be no surprise ending at all.
Sitting through the last reel is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his Halloween trip to the Haunted House.
Frightening, hopeful, and strangely majestic, "Signs" is one of the last best movies of M. Night Shyamalan playing with the audience's expectations every tense step of the proverbial way.
This movie worked well when it came out but it's not ageing that good. Everytime I see it I find it less good than I thought the time before. It should be an horror movie but it really seems a parody of itself.
Nothing really special about this one. There is this one frightening scene, jump scare that I love and I literally jumped off my bed watching it. And because of that scene - it’s worth it haha
Cheesy, wonderful, so-bad-its good brilliance. The acting is absurdly wooden. The script is so hamfisted that it sounds like it was written by an actual ham. The camera work is bizarre. Yet, despite all of that, Signs is charming in that M. Night Shyamalan way. Its not good by any means, but it is enjoyable.
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Signs
Signs is a plot driven horror thriller about a family living on a farm that is shook up after the symphony of horror enters in their house. Despite of being of horror genre, there isn't a single loose thread of thrill for the viewers to root for either the characters or the storyline. The primary reason why it fails to create the anticipated crispy environment is because of its pretentious and shallow characters that the audience never cares about. The characters goes deep in order to draw out the emotions but unfortunately they are still undercooked if not one dimensional. The essential bits that usually antes up the horror and decorates it with long gasping of airs, is the missing puzzle in here. Neither the background score, not the sound effects factors in, addition to that, the art designing is daft and visual effects still under production, which **** out the heat from the asset. Gibson gives few good sequences especially his caring response towards the children whilst unfortunately Phoenix seems distracted and not in his game as his portrayal just doesn't seem palpable to the theme of the feature. Shyamalan's vision in here requires plenty of preparation and in order to do so, he spends his first two acts on building up the structure and when it finally hits on screen the viewers are exhausted and numbed by it to feel electrified by its rendezvous point. Having said that, Shyamalan's execution still delivers few good moments but the audience is never in an awe of it, in the entire course of the feature. The emotional repercussions that the flashback sequence breeds, its simplistic and practical take on something such fictional that offers much personal experience and its final nail biting seen-this-seen-that drama are the high points of the feature. Signs is more pretentious that it claims to be and surfs more than it hopes to be, it's a huge misconception iterated in a horror.