Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 225
Fresh: 166 | Rotten: 59
With Signs, Shyamalan proves once again an expert at building suspense and giving audiences the chills.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 17
With Signs, Shyamalan proves once again an expert at building suspense and giving audiences the chills.
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Following the smash hit The Sixth Sense (1999) and the under-performing follow-up Unbreakable (2000), directing phenom M. Night Shyamalan returns to the summer box office landscape that served as the backdrop for his cinematic breakthrough. In Signs, another paranormal outing for the writer-director, Shyamalan explores the eerie implications of a 500-foot crop circle that mysteriously appears on the Bucks County, PA farm of reverend Graham Hess (Mel Gibson). As Hess and his family (Joaquin
PG-13, 1 hr. 46 min.
Aug 2, 2002 Wide
Jan 7, 2003
$227.9M
Touchstone Pictures
All Critics (226) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (173) | Rotten (60) | DVD (50)
Individual sequences generate an eerie tension that's always deflated, creating a jarring stop-and-go rhythm, and the atmospheric trickery never strays beyond a lot of smoke and mirrors.
A refreshing summer movie.
Shyamalan wants to be the metaphysical poet of movies, but he's dangerously close to becoming its O. Henry.
The same old same old: dull and recycled, with no surprises.
The movie is almost completely lacking in suspense, surprise and consistent emotional conviction.
Sitting through the last reel (spoiler alert!) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his Halloween trip to the Haunted House.
Excellent, but has some extreme tension and peril.
Gibson is unbelievable, packing a punch in many of the scenes in which there are no dialogue. He is a deep and very likeable character as he slowly descents in to a situation way over his head and must rely on his faith to help him.
An anti-Independence Day, a cousin of Close Encounters, but most of all, a well-modulated, dread-laden, faith-based mystery. [Blu-Ray]
Give Shyamalan credit for taking a big concept and dealing with it effectively on a microcosmic level.
Crap circles.
Mr. Shayamalan is a gifted writer and filmmaker. He definitely has more great films in his future. However, he may need to take a step away from the paranormal thriller.
Shyamalan is technically a superb film-maker, for all that he's picked up most of his tricks from Spielberg and Hitchcock.
M. Night Shyamalan's Signs is Close Encounters of the Corny Kind.
I come away from Signs exhilarated by Shyamalan's skill at keeping his audience guessing.
The one good thing about it is that it's over in one hour and 47 minutes. The bad thing is to think what a terrible waste it was of an hour and 47 minutes.
A gripping and well-made thriller that preserves Shyamalan's winning streak and shows us, as all the best films do, a world that we're familiar with and believe in, and yet we've never seen, and by which we're endlessly fascinated.
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Shyamalan fancies himself a philosopher whose stories have deep and important meanings that need to be conveyed to audiences as slowly and heavy-handedly as possible.
Gibson gives one of the best performances of his career...
One may never get the answer that they seek, but they will be scared out of the wits when searching for one.
Not really into alien type movies but this is a great storyline about a family who defends their home from invasion. Reminds me of Independence Day and War of the Worlds. Great cast. Fab ending. Best M Night Shyamalan movie.
July 7, 2007
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It has taken me a long time to see this movie, which still surprises me even after watching it as it is a typical movie that I would feel the need to see. However, on the reviews of a lot of other people I simply steered away from it until I found it today stashed away with my DVD's still sealed. I was pleasantly
September 9, 2011Super Reviewer
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