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Critics Consensus: Director William Eubank clearly has big ideas and an impressive level of technical expertise; unfortunately, The Signal fritters them away on a poorly constructed story.
Critic Consensus: Director William Eubank clearly has big ideas and an impressive level of technical expertise; unfortunately, The Signal fritters them away on a poorly constructed story.
All Critics (84) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (34)
You spend a lot of the movie confused, but the great big reveals of its finale don't feel very shocking at all.
There's something welcome about a motion picture that doesn't hand out a dumbed-down resolution in a neatly wrapped package.
Eubank could have a terrific future as a director. As a screenwriter, though, maybe not so much.
There's bravura manipulativeness to The Signal, the stylish, slyly funny question mark of a movie from director and co-writer William Eubank.
The Signal is too ambitious for its own good, but it is still a pleasure to watch.
Eubank's talent is not at all in doubt, and science-fiction mavens who embrace this picture will rightly be excited for whatever he turns to next.
The Signal feels like your standard side-of-the-highway fare. It's just not worth the mozzarella sticks.
The Signal is clever in its execution of recycled concepts.
Up-and-coming British actress Olivia Cooke and Aussie heart-throb Brenton Thwaites look more confused than the audience in this sci-fi drama.
Part horror, part sci-fi but totally engrossing, William Eubank's The Signal is a small scale production that thrives on some very big ideas.
Adequately creepy, flashy, and/or exciting when the story calls for it, but considerably more interesting for its quieter, craftier moments.
It's a movie of ideas rather than spectacle (Philip K Dick's dreamy electric sheep are inevitably invoked) with some well realised visual effects (a la Ex Machina) giving it genre legs.
However initially intriguing the mystery is, the only thing worse than a stupid movie that believes to be smart is a stupid movie that believes to be smart and insults its audience, and so it is just awfully confusing with a lot of stupid plot twists that don't make much sense.
Super Reviewer
Very Cool !
Slow burning, yet ultimately satisfying sci-fi/ mystery.
Damon: What I'm about to tell you Nic, you may find to be disturbing... The Signal is the kind of movie I want to support, despite finding some issues with it. It is an original science fiction story with mysterious aspects that unfold as the film goes along in ways that I found consistently engaging. The film ends up biting off a bit more than it can chew, but there is clear ambition in the filmmaking that I was happy to admire. I would not quite say that the style is placed over the substance, as it amounts more to needing to evolve as a screenwriter and a director, but I really dug what William Eubank was going for with this film. read the whole review at thecodeiszeek.com
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