Signs

The work of a born filmmaker, able to summon apprehension out of thin air.

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.

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.

It's a high-octane doomsday vision built almost entirely around our sense of anticipation, and that's both its strength and its weakness.

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.

As a scare picture, Signs is good enough. As a religious parable, it's scarier -- and I don't mean that as a compliment.

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.

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.

Una pelicula típica de extraterrestres con dos grandes del cine que está bastante entretenida y aceptable pero creo que podrian haber sacado mucho mas partido y que hay bastantes errores argumentales.

The cinematography has an individual style and maintains foreboding. The CGI looks poorly integrated and dated. The sound design is subtle yet very effective. There are good and bad points about this movie. The fear is constant and menace feels very real. There are some stunning scare and spine-tingling moments. The use of seemingly irrelevant story arcs adds to the interest that is until they become relevant and then we just have a stupid twist that was not needed. The director cannot act and drags down the quality. It is the ending that really drags it down. It could have been handled with so much more subtlety and fear and without the need of a twist ending. Overall though the atmosphere and unnerving suspense is the real winner.

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.

still under production.. 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.