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Summary: This is no B movie! A great spiritual thriller!
Review: ... I thought they were both good films but once you know the end of them what's the real point in watching them again. ... SIGNS is a great movie from beginning to end. It's an instant classic. Proof that Shyamalan is only getting better with every film that he creates. Just because SIGNS doesn't fit in with either of Shyamalan's previous work doesn't mean that there aren't plot twists in store. There's plenty.
SIGNS concentrates on the effects an outer space invasion has on one family (Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin) instead of taking the INDEPENDENCE DAY route. Without giving to anything away, it begins with crop circles and then transpires into a domestic siege.
Gibson and Phoenix (who is always great and very underused) hold the film together as the two brothers, both bringing goofiness and dramatic despair to their characters. All in all, a great film. Sure to go done in film history as a classic. Check it out once, twice and thrice and then BUY IT when it comes on video! You won't be disappointed!
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Summary: The worst movie since Titanic
Review: I think people are suffering from mass hysteria about movies like this and Titanic. As an intergalactic invasionary force, these aliens are pathetic beyond words. They are devoid of any weaponry, can be wrestled into and locked within a pantry, and worst of all they have travelled light years to fight one of their first battles at a most strategically important beach Head (a corn field in PA). Furthermore, as they circled our planet, they were incapable of detecting a substance that was totally lethal to them (water). I see why they missed it since it only makes up 70% of our planet. This movie reminded me of MARS ATTACKS except that MARS ATTACKS had the good sense to not take itself seriously. The "signs" and foreshadowing elswhere in the movie were so transparent and lame that they were almost as insulting as the sci-fi plot. Have our standards dropped so low that we are falling for any movie with a good website and truckloads of marketing and distribution dollars behind it?
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Summary: Badass movie! Shamalan is brilliant!
Review: This is a great movie! It is not the godfather or braveheart it is just a very entertaining captivating plot that slowly unravels and you cant wait till it does. the aliens add a great element of the unknown to the plot anyone who says that they are unnecisary to it is trying to sound more clever than they are. it is truely frightening at times and the jump out of your seat and scream obscenities factor in this film is off of the charts.
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Summary: one of the best films in its genre
Review: This Is one of the best films i've seen of this genre.
It keeps you guessing till the end.
It made me jump out my seat a few times e.g when you see the alien is seen on the roof top at night, when he is walking passed the house and caught on camera and when you see his reflection on the tv at the end.
Mel Gibson plays his role very well.
This is a must see!!!!!!!
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Summary: Go Along for the Ride
Review: I saw this movie with my Family - children aged 13, 20 and 24 and
I have to say that it worked on us. I'm not into "alien" type movies. However, with excellent use of background music and sudden appearances of frightening figures (try the knife/mirror under the door scene, and the video tape/news scene,) the movie has already done its job by the time the aliens actually make their appearance. If you go along for the ride for the rest of the movie, the whole experience actually works. It helps to have some friends or family along who can "suspend their disbelief" and also enjoy being scared. A neighbor of ours saw it on her own and absolutely hated it.
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Summary: SUPERB MOVIE
Review: I seldom go to the cinema, because I prefer to watch "my" movies in the intimacy and quietness of my home, especially since I bought the dvd player, three years ago....but there're certain movies which I cannot wait until their release on the dvd format...One was "The Others", and now it's "Signs".M. Night Shyamalan,who also gave us groundbreaking "Sixth Sense", and the excellent "Unbreakable", directs this hell of a picture, which captures you from the very start, with those opening titles ("classicaly" designed) accompanied by a score, not to be missed, with reminiscences of those grandiose opening scores Bernard Herrmann composed for such Hitchcock blockbusters as "Vertigo", "Psycho" or "North by Northwest". Mel Gibson gives a very good performance as the tormented widowed priest, who after the tragic death of his young wife, rebels against God, eventually losing his faith and abandoning his ministry. His two kids are expertly played by two excellent child actors, and Joaquin Phoenix gives a great (as usual) portrayal as Gibson's troubled younger brother. The movie's wonderfully constructed gripping suspense, had me at verge of falling off my seat, for almost the whole show. Recommended viewing.
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Summary: Almost fell asleep
Review: I found Signs to be too slow and boring. The ending was okay but certainly did not make up for the painstaking process it took to get there.
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Summary: Signs-You have to see it!
Review: I do not go to the movies very often, but, some friends took me to see this movie and it was awesome! Mel Gibson was terrific and the whole concept was GREAT!!
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Summary: WOW
Review: If I had to rate this movie scary 1 to 10, I would rate it 12. It was so scary. I seriously almost wet my pants. This movie has many unexpected twists and turn. It's a movie that I will buy the day it comes out. P.S. Have something to grab onto when you see this movie(you'll need it)
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Summary: A theological review
Review: At the heart of a paradox is the unknown. When looking at a paradox from the outside it has the appearance of contradiction; yet there is that mystery at its core which, when understood, resolves the divergent elements of the paradox into a marvelous symmetry. There are precious few writers or artists who can really be acknowledged as masters of paradox. But those who have right to claim this title consequently have the power to awe us and to inspire us. And with the release of his movie, Signs, M. Night Shyamalan has shown himself to be a true Master of Paradox. Variously classified in the genre of sci-fi, suspense, or drama, Signs is at root a film about the paradox of that divine mystery we call providence. When crafting a movie about such a mysterious theme, it is impossible for the result to be mundane. Even if the result is an awful movie the result cannot help but at least be a very spectacular sort of bust. Thankfully, Shyamalan's cinematic exploration of providence is spectacular, but by no means a bust. The story is centered on Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), a former Episcopalian minister, and his family, composed of his two children and his brother. Graham's wife was killed in a tragic accident just six month's prior to the time the story takes place, and the tragedy has caused the reverend to turn his back on his faith. Yet throughout the movie there is an undercurrent of religious symbolism that serves to convince the attentive theatergoer that Hess is still being chased by the hound of heaven. Yet religious imagery is not the only form of symbolism portrayed in Shyamalan's work of art. Indeed, as the title of the movie implies, there are myriad signs throughout the film that point to some greater theme. Everything has a deeper meaning, from a dog's bark to a small child's obsessive-compulsive habit of leaving half-empty glasses of water around the house. By the end of the movie, it is apparent that the real signs of the movie are not the mysterious crop-circles which begin forming around the globe; rather, they are the providential occurrences which prepare the Hess family for their coming confrontation with the Great Unknown. In order to avoid spoiling the movie for those who have not yet had a chance to partake of Shyamalan's masterpiece I will not reveal all the hidden signs and paradoxes. Yet, as each layer of mystery and providential occurrence is drawn back and the heart of the film is revealed I find it hard to believe that anyone cannot be deeply touched. As I exited the theater after seeing Signs the first time I realized I had never seen a movie quite like this before. Perhaps Signs is not the best movie ever made, but to me it is the film which has affected me the most. Why this is the case, I can only guess. But I think my guess is fairly accurate. At the very heart of the movie there is the conversation between Graham and his brother over whether all the mysterious signs they have seen and experienced have meaning or whether they are mere occurrences of blind chance. Graham's brother asks the former reverend for some form of comfort and Graham responds with a profound kind of homily. He says that there are two types of people in the world: the first are those who see everything as having a deeper purpose and believe that there is Someone guiding the course of life; the second type are those who believe only what they can see, and think they must face the world alone. Until the very end, Graham professes himself to be in the latter class. He struggles with the many evil happenstances that chance seems to maliciously and randomly thrust upon him. Not only has he lost his wife, but at a focal point in the film, as the world crumbles around him, his son begins to have an asthma attack while his inhaler is impossible to reach. In desperation at the thought of losing his son, Hess cries out to heaven, "Don't do this to me again. I hate you. I hate you!" But at this very moment we realize that by confessing his hatred of God, like Luther, Hess has begun to see the light. Post tenebras lux. But perhaps the actual key that unlocks the whole paradox of Signs is the flashback in which we hear the last words of Graham's wife, "See... swing away." In his unbelief and skepticism Graham deems these seemingly incoherent words to be the result of a physiological chemical reaction occurring just prior to death. In the end we find out this could not be further from the truth. Everything is under the watchful eye of Providence. By the time you walk out of the theater you will have gone through a very soul-harrowing experience. You will have laughed at the dry sense of humor that kept you from hyperventilating during the tense parts. You will have wept at some of the most moving scenes you have ever beheld. You will have started from your seat at the eerie images that constantly played with your mind. But foremost, you will have seen before your eyes a great paradox resolved. Providence will from now on seem much more imminent and powerful. And you will evermore be watching for its signs.
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