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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.
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Sadly, this flubs the landing with a banal and credulity-stretching finale that feels like a bad Twilight Zone episode, but the first hour or so is terrific. Mar 26, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Sadly, this flubs the landing with a banal and credulity-stretching finale that feels like a bad Twilight Zone episode, but the first hour or so is terrific.
Leslie Felperin
Pity the poor actors trapped in a cinematographer's world. Mar 26, 2015 | Rating: 2/5
Pity the poor actors trapped in a cinematographer's world.
Sophie Monks Kaufman
You spend a lot of the movie confused, but the great big reveals of its finale don't feel very shocking at all. Jun 13, 2014 | Full Review…
You spend a lot of the movie confused, but the great big reveals of its finale don't feel very shocking at all.
Bilge Ebiri
There's something welcome about a motion picture that doesn't hand out a dumbed-down resolution in a neatly wrapped package. Jun 13, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
There's something welcome about a motion picture that doesn't hand out a dumbed-down resolution in a neatly wrapped package.
James Berardinelli
Eubank could have a terrific future as a director. As a screenwriter, though, maybe not so much. Jun 13, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Eubank could have a terrific future as a director. As a screenwriter, though, maybe not so much.
Bruce Ingram
There's bravura manipulativeness to The Signal, the stylish, slyly funny question mark of a movie from director and co-writer William Eubank. Jun 13, 2014 | Full Review…
There's bravura manipulativeness to The Signal, the stylish, slyly funny question mark of a movie from director and co-writer William Eubank.
Robert Abele
There are some truly memorable images... But a leaden narrative labyrinth leads its screenplay down one too many dead end paths. Apr 4, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
There are some truly memorable images... But a leaden narrative labyrinth leads its screenplay down one too many dead end paths.
Ben Nicholson
The Signal feels like your standard side-of-the-highway fare. It's just not worth the mozzarella sticks. Aug 24, 2017 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
The Signal feels like your standard side-of-the-highway fare. It's just not worth the mozzarella sticks.
Heather Dockray
The Signal is clever in its execution of recycled concepts. Jun 21, 2016 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
The Signal is clever in its execution of recycled concepts.
Raffi Asdourian
Up-and-coming British actress Olivia Cooke and Aussie heart-throb Brenton Thwaites look more confused than the audience in this sci-fi drama. Dec 29, 2015 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Up-and-coming British actress Olivia Cooke and Aussie heart-throb Brenton Thwaites look more confused than the audience in this sci-fi drama.
Grant Rollings
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. Aug 26, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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.
Rob Carnevale
Adequately creepy, flashy, and/or exciting when the story calls for it, but considerably more interesting for its quieter, craftier moments. Aug 24, 2015 | Full Review…
Adequately creepy, flashy, and/or exciting when the story calls for it, but considerably more interesting for its quieter, craftier moments.
Scott Weinberg
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.
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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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