Signs
Cast
Mel Gibson as Father Graham Hess
Joaquin Phoenix as Merrill Hess
Rory Culkin as Morgan Hess
Abigail Breslin as Bo Hess
Cherry Jones as Officer Caroline Paski
Director is M. Night Shyamalan
Thriller-Graham Hess is a former priest who lives in Bucks Count, Pennsylvania, on a farm. He lives with his brother Merrill, who was a former minor league baseball player, and his two kids, Morgan and Bo. Graham's wife was killed in a car accident. One morning, Morgan brings something to Graham's attention-there's a giant crop circle in the corn fields. More start happening all over the world, but Graham just dismisses them as hoaxes. However, Morgan, Bo, and even Merrill start to think otherwise, especially now that some lights have been seen in the sky.
Rater #1
6/10. #1. I don't like Science Fiction all that much (Star Wars is the only exception). #2. I'm not a fan of scary movies. Now that I have that down. Signs was an ok movie. Nothing better than i expected and nothing worse than i expected.
My gripes about the movie. There weren't too many special effects that i can name. The aliens were....how should I put....bad. I've seen them way too many times in other movies because most people have the same vision of aliens. I thought they could come up with something better. The crop field idea was a bit odd happening a bunch of times in India. Aliens being weak to water? I don't think so. One last thing, the ending was stupid.
Rater #2
8/10-"I see dead people", "Are you ready for the truth?", and now what saying will come from Signs? I guess it would be "It's happening". It's been said in the trailer (and the only thing spoken in the original theatrical trailer), and it gave away too much of the plot. The movie is not about crop circles, it's about the makers of the crop circles. The thrillingness is superb, you feel like you're there and you're walking through a giant hole in your fields.
Mel Gibson was well-developed as the farmer, but Joaquin, who is a great actor who needs to do more things, we weren't aquainted with. It doesn't seem like those two could be brothers, but I guess it's poetic liecense. I enjoyed Abigail as Bo, but I don't really understand how a kid could understand exactly what was going to happen. Shyamalan did an "Alfred Hitchcock" of sorts-he had a small part but not a walk-on. I thought he would do an actual Hitchcock.
The ending, with the alien, wasn't that imagentive. I knew all along that it wasn't people doing it, and that it's weakness was water...don't you think that somewhere in the world there would be water raining so they would die? And why would the come to earth just to "harvest" us? It makes no sense at all. The crop circles as "roadmaps", I didn't buy. One more thing-I didn't like how the alien was stereotypical-long, lanky, and dangerous.
Rated PG-13 for thrillingness.
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