FILM REVIEW Signs I went into the cinema expecting something good but what I got was much better than good – it was great! Well, to tell the truth, I should have known. In 1999, M Night Shyamalan gave us The Sixth Sense. He took a ghost story and gave it a little extra. With Unbreakable in 2000, he gave us a super hero and stripped it of clich ” es and tackiness. I didn’t think he could work his magic three times in a row three times in a row but, my, how I was mistaken. Graham Hess, a former Father, wakes up one morning to find a five-hundred foot wide crop circle in his field.
At first he believes it to be a hoax but as they start cropping up (excuse the pun) around the world, he realises that they really are not the work of the nerds but of something much more sinister Rather than being solely about an alien invasion, we are shown a man whose faith has been seriously questioned since the tragic death of his wife, the details of which we get in cleverly shot flashbacks, and is about to be tested further. As well as aliens and the death of his wife to deal with, Hess also has to take care of his washed out brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) and two young kids Morgan (Rory Culkin, younger brother to Macaulay) and Bo (Abigail Breslin).
This movie is essentially a horror movie and scare it definitely does. It is full of suspense in all the right places and does not rely on scary music to make the audience jump. Signs preys on the mind and waits for the brain to iamgine what’s making those eerie noises before showing them to us in all its horrific glory. The ending is fantastic, showing the Hollywood movie industry that you don’t need big, brash American action heroes with gigantic guns and shiny space ships to fight an invasion, but a bit of common sense.
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The cast is absolutely superb. Mel Gibson is excellent as the tortured Father Graham Hess and Joaquin Phoenix brings some comic relief without it being strained or put on. The children are very subtle and are thankfully not of the cardboard variety who play up to the camera all smiles and cuteness. Signs was excellent – a movie you can see more than once without getting board. It cuts the cheese and the ‘sameness’ that you get with many other alien films and brings something original to the genre. People say that M.
Night Shyamalan is the next Spielberg. I say give the man some time and the name Shyamalan will stand on its own. The writer/ director deserves a clap on the back.
