Signs
A Film Review By Paul Perkins (Film Info Click Here)
The Signs is: Don't See This Film Alone.
One of the world biggest questions Is are we alone in the
universe are there other life forces out there. There has been many different
films that deals with this topic.
Many people believe that they have seen aliens and there
space ships. There is a real life Phenomena happing all over the world it called
Crop Signs and this is the premise behind the new film from the Director of The
Sixth Sense.
The film is called Signs, when you are a farmer you
expect to grow the best fruit and vegetables around. But what you don’t expect
is that a mysterious force destroys your crop. For Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) a
priest who lost his fate because of a freak accident that takes someone from his
family. He is now a farmer who is raising his two kids Morgan (Rory Culkin) and
Bo (Abigail Breslin).
His brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) lives with them. During
one day a strange and mysterious event happen to his crop. An intricate pattern
of circles and lines are carven into his crops. As he investigates the unfolding
mystery, what he will find will forever alter his family live.
When M Night Shyamalan wrote and directed The Sixth
Sense I think he couldn’t image how a success at the box office it would
be. And how a great film it is it should have won many awards. Being said that
how can you top you best moneymaker. You try and make another movie it was
called Unbreakable. It did not do nearly as much as The Sixth Sense did
at the box office.
The film it self was good but it is not The Sixth Sense;
now he has his next film up to bat it called Signs and he written and
Directed it as he did is his other films. Signs is the kind of film that it has
suspense and some chilly moments. Where you will be on the edge of your seats
and there are moments where you will laughs.
When you go into this film don’t expect it to be a movie
just about mysterious forces. It a film that granted it about aliens but it
about how one family must cope and survive when forces are trying to take over
your house or planet. This is not an Independence Day type of film.
The film is a cross of The Sixth Sense (With Out Dead
People) mix with Close Encounters of the Third Kind and had some of the Tension
that Panic Room had but the film is much Better than Panic Room.. The story it
self was good it had me watching the screen to see what will happen next.
When the scenes that make you jump comes on, they do what
they are intended to do; you will jump trust me. But in some of the scenes I was
hoping that something would happen because it was slowing down a tad. The acting
was good by the whole cast, Mel Gibson did well as the father trying to protect
his family. Joaquin Phoenix did good at his role as well. He was not as good as
he did in Gladiator.
Anyone who likes The Sixth Sense or Unbreakable will like this film but not as much as those films. But Signs is a film you don’t want to miss and when you see it. Don’t go to see it Alone.
© 2002 Paul Perkins