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Title: Signs
Tagline: It's not like they didn't warn us.
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, Cherry Jones, M. Night Shyamalan, Patricia Kalember, Ted Sutton, Merritt Wever, Lanny Flaherty, Marion McCorry, Michael Showalter, Rhonda Overby, Clifford David, Kevin Pires, Greg Wood, Paul L. Nolan, Ukee Washington, Angela Eckert, Babita Hariani
Release: 2002-08-02
Runtime: 106
Plot: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.Just finished watching Signs, the new
film directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring
Mel Gibson.
I don't know whether I'll be doing a full
Sneak Peek review or not as I have a very busy
week coming up.
Let me just briefly say the movie was okay, but
nothing earth-shattering.
This is Mel Gibson like you have never seen him
before. He plays Father Graham Hess, a man of the
cloth who has questioned his faith and left the
church after his wife is killed in a a car accident.
He's a timid man who doesn't swear and doesn't drink.
Left with his young son and daughter, he lives out
on a large farm in Pennsylvania. Also living with
him is his brother (Joaquin Phoenix).
The movie wastes no time getting to its point.
Within the first ten minutes we hear screams from
Hess's daughter, as he runs out into the cropfield
to find that his stalks of corn have been carefully
mowed down. What he doesn't realize at first is
that someone has created large symbols in his
cornfield.
Hess soon learns that the same phenomenon is
happening all over the world. Suddenly, the world
finds out that this may not be a hoax after all.
This is all I can really tell you about the film
without ruining it.
I have a very mixed opinion about this film. It's
not the type of film I expected from Shyamalan.
Like all of Shymalan's earlier films, the movie
plays out rather slowly. I have to be careful here
not to ruin the film, but here's really no surprise
payoff in the end other than the fact that the film
goes in a very interesting direction that is a little
reminsicent of WAR OF THE WORLDS. I think in the
end, however, audiences are going to feel a little
slighted. Though Gibson and Phoenix give fine
performances throughout, the film never rises to
the kind of thriller it could have been, though I'll
admit, I was glued to the screen for the film's final
half hour.
Rating: 4 (on a scale of 1-5).
film directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring
Mel Gibson.
I don't know whether I'll be doing a full
Sneak Peek review or not as I have a very busy
week coming up.
Let me just briefly say the movie was okay, but
nothing earth-shattering.
This is Mel Gibson like you have never seen him
before. He plays Father Graham Hess, a man of the
cloth who has questioned his faith and left the
church after his wife is killed in a a car accident.
He's a timid man who doesn't swear and doesn't drink.
Left with his young son and daughter, he lives out
on a large farm in Pennsylvania. Also living with
him is his brother (Joaquin Phoenix).
The movie wastes no time getting to its point.
Within the first ten minutes we hear screams from
Hess's daughter, as he runs out into the cropfield
to find that his stalks of corn have been carefully
mowed down. What he doesn't realize at first is
that someone has created large symbols in his
cornfield.
Hess soon learns that the same phenomenon is
happening all over the world. Suddenly, the world
finds out that this may not be a hoax after all.
This is all I can really tell you about the film
without ruining it.
I have a very mixed opinion about this film. It's
not the type of film I expected from Shyamalan.
Like all of Shymalan's earlier films, the movie
plays out rather slowly. I have to be careful here
not to ruin the film, but here's really no surprise
payoff in the end other than the fact that the film
goes in a very interesting direction that is a little
reminsicent of WAR OF THE WORLDS. I think in the
end, however, audiences are going to feel a little
slighted. Though Gibson and Phoenix give fine
performances throughout, the film never rises to
the kind of thriller it could have been, though I'll
admit, I was glued to the screen for the film's final
half hour.
Rating: 4 (on a scale of 1-5).