Signs (2002)
74 %
Reviews Counted: 216 Fresh: 159 Rotten:57 Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus:
With Signs, Shyamalan proves once again an expert at building suspense and giving audiences the chills.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Theatrical Release: Aug 2, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $227,935,522
Synopsis: It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. This is just one in a long list of strange occurrences that are changing the lives of the Hess family. Things go awry when Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, Cherry Jones
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Producer: Frank Marshall, Sam Mercer
Composer: James Newton Howard
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Producer: Frank Marshall, Sam Mercer
Composer: James Newton Howard
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Reviews
An anti-Independence Day, a cousin of Close Encounters, but most of all, a well-modulated, dread-laden, faith-based mystery. [Blu-Ray]
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06/01/08
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.
06/06/07
Top Critic
Shyamalan is technically a superb film-maker, for all that he's picked up most of his tricks from Spielberg and Hitchcock.
06/24/06
I come away from Signs exhilarated by Shyamalan's skill at keeping his audience guessing.
12/06/04
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.
10/07/04
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.
02/01/04
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.
01/01/04
One may never get the answer that they seek, but they will be scared out of the wits when searching for one.
05/13/03
Shyamalan has done it again. He's taken a well-used genre, the alien invasion, and given it a spin that focuses on the human psyche rather than the surrounding events.
04/24/03
How apt for a film called Signs that Shyamalan should have plusses and minuses the whole way through.
04/16/03
Being known for "Big Twist Endings" may label you a one-trick pony, but one trick is better than no tricks.
03/19/03
[Shyamalan's] treatment doesn't always make perfect sense, but what his film lacks in logic is more than made up for in atmosphere.
02/08/03
Signs may be lightweight and fragile in comparison to Sense and even to Unbreakable for that matter, but nobody can deny the eye-popping quality to this exquisite soul-searching drama.
02/04/03
A great movie. People went to Signs expecting to see intestines, and what they got was heart, and a lot to think about.
01/16/03
M. Night Shyamalan proves himself narratively perceptive with his latest film.
01/16/03
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