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by pach1908 , Aug 03 '02
Pros: absolute trust in last half of phrase "motion picture" , decent performances
Cons: Nothing moves until all words are uttered.
Review of “Signs”
dir. by M. Night Shamalyan
starring Mel Gibison, Rory Culkin, Joaquin Phoenix.
M. Night Shamalyan needs a sympathetic and antagonistic editor. He constructs luminous and beautiful shots, creates wonderful...
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by deepthroat101  - Top 500, Aug 16 '02
Pros: Gibson is always good, some well used humor.
Cons: Shallow plot, horrible ending, predictable and definitely not scary.
With Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, a plot about extra terrestrials, and M. Night Shyamalan combining forces in "Signs", I'm amazed it was this shallow. I don't consider myself a Shyamalan fan boy after seeing his overrated but atmospheric endeavor "The...
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by mrbrown - Top 1000, Aug 04 '02
Pros: Good performances, style, some effective sequences...
Cons: ...but to what end?
Much like how his The Sixth Sense was a rather unconventional ghost story and Unbreakable turned out to be a surprising superhero yarn, Signs is writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's characteristically idiosyncratic take on two other...
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by jaieinmiami , Aug 06 '02
Pros: Startlingly effective in establishing an atmosphere of unease.
Cons: Introduces morally complex ideas and then minimizes them.
The new film Signs is director M. Night Shyamalan's attempt to woo back the audiences he won so spectacularly with his breakthrough film The Sixth Sense and lost with equal aplomb in his impenetrable follow-up, Unbreakable. Like...
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by garethvk , Jul 30 '02
Pros: Great thrills, acting and story.
Cons: None
Faith is a precarious thing. It is something that is different things to different people, and is manifested by people in many ways. There are those that base their lives upon faith and those who have little left. One such person is Graham Hess (Mel...
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by Sokkernick , Sep 24 '02
Pros: Director, Cast, Soundtrack
Cons: Ending.
Following in the wake of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalon brings to the theatres another work of eerie silence yet formidable presence. Signs, based on a large-scale prank pulled off in the 1970's where enormous "crop-signs" were...
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by waynio , Aug 13 '02
Pros: Unexpected humor; Mel Gibson's acting
Cons: The lamest aliens ever to invade Earth; weak ending; very misleading about crop circles
To swipe a phrase from "Signs," there are two kinds of people: those who believe M. Night Shyamalan is a genius, and those who think he just got lucky with "The Sixth Sense". After seeing "Signs" I now know which camp I'm in. Having read the mixed...
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by SKAD13 - Top 1000, Jul 29 '02
Pros: Suspense, pitch-perfect dialogue, natural acting--virtually cliche-free
Cons: Pity the viewer who has to see it alone
These days, most sci-fi thrillers look like they were made by someone who said, "Get the actor to look shocked, and then Industrial Light & Magic can fill the rest in later." Signs heartily proves that there's nothing as satisfying as an...
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by sephiroth2000 , Aug 08 '02
Pros: Great deep story that was not as trivial as I thought it would be.
Cons: Not really about Aliens.
Having enjoyed both of M. Night Shamalayan's other films, Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, although I enjoyed the latter a great deal more, I was very excited to see this movie, especially because it was featuring another one of my favorite actors, Mel...
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by Bounty628 , Sep 02 '02
Pros: The fact that most of the scare is in your head
Cons: Ending is a bit awkward
Signs, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, tracks the plight of a family who lives on the outskirts of Philadelphia on a large multi-acre farm. The family is a non-nuclear family, as the mother died a few years back when she was hit by a driver who fell...
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by cdsouter , Aug 01 '02
Pros: Good performance from Mel Gibson. Nice build-up.
Cons: Unfortunately, Shyamalan uses bad sci-fi as window dressing for what is a deeper, better story.
“Signs”
(*1/2)
By Collin Souter
I walked into “Signs” thinking I had it beat. Two weeks prior to the screening I attended, I had a theory about it that I thought for sure couldn’t miss. Or, at least, I...
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by JiggyJay - Top 500, Feb 09 '03
Pros: great humor, Phoenix, Gibson, awesome storyline
Cons: Culkin and the other little brat
M. Night Shyamalan is one of my new favorite directors. He is brilliant. Ever since "The Sixth Sense", I have been obsessed with his work. I love all of his fantastic camera angles and the way that he makes actors act better (which I was surprised he...
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by mark_dujsik , Aug 08 '02
Pros: Tense and character-driven
Cons: No twist--no wait, that's a good thing here
M. Night Shyamalan may have burst onto the scene as a strong, rising talent three years ago when he wrote and directed the wildly popular and highly celebrated ghost story The Sixth Sense and immensely improved his storytelling skills in his...
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by lofc , Aug 29 '02
Pros: An on the edge-of-your-seat thriller with faith and heart.
Cons: Essentially a B-grade alien film.
Writer, director, producer, and actor, M. Night Shyamalan continues his penchant for things dark and unnerving in his latest thriller Signs (Touchstone). Perhaps it has something to do with his name.
As with his previous films, Wide...
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by ninput , Dec 08 '04
Pros: Acting, direction, score, everything
Cons: Nothing
When I stepped into the theatre that warm summer day I had no idea whether I'd be seeing something awful, or something great. Shymalan's prior two films had both been very impressive. However, the alien thing had been done about a thousand different ...
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