Signs on DVD (2002)

sammy from Hampshire , 14/10/2003

I travelled in by taxi the day after i watched this film, the taxi driver was raving about signs saying how wonderful he thought it was. I'm a fool, i should have taken the train. How could I even waste breath over how wrong he was! The reviews and trailers made this film to look like the alien sci fi flick of the decade, a winner, after all Mel does do good films! But no! The story starts to build up tension and fear but loses just as soon as it finds it. ET sent more fear up my spine than these aliens and the story just took a nose dive at the end. I'm so dispaointed for the director and cast, what could have been a box office hit, was a real flop... please, only consider watching this if you are being paid to do so or you have seen every film ever made ...twice.

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Ian from Epsom, UK , 11/03/2005

...and it was an effort to watch. Crap and totally unbelievable story line that seems like it was designed by committee. If you must watch it, I recommend you watch Scary Movie 3 first....will make this one much more........... well, you'll see!

  12 out of 16 people found this review helpful

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Imran from London , 26/07/2004

This film has it's fair share of creepy moments as the existence of the aliens and their purpose becomes apparent but does seem a bit overly sentimental and eventually borders on the ridiculous. It does have an interesting hero with tortured former man of god Gibson fighting with his own lack of faith and belief in signs, miracles and ultimately god. While well acted and genuinely scary at times I think this film fails in the end but I can see the thought behind the whole thing and for that reason I believe it's well worth a watch.

  8 out of 9 people found this review helpful

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Northernsky from Halifax [Highly rated reviewer] , 30/01/2004

I’d been told that “Signs” was a major Spook-fest, but well... it isn’t. It’s a slight tale of catharsism and redemption through adversity as a widowed ex-priest turned farmer by Mel Gibson struggles with his faith after the death of his wife. This is told via an alien invasion so low key I was surprised they didn’t stammer “oh, I’m terribly sorry, but we’re going to have to colonise your planet……sorry!” In a way it’s a welcome small scale antidote to the jingoistic histrionics of “Independence Day” but it lacks dramatic impetus is too simplistic and I repeat is about as scary as tots t.v. A couple of scenes are quite effective in creating tension making good use of the cornfields and cavernous house but it’s never sustained and the ending is both silly and illogical. “Signs" is a lightweight dream of a movie; hardly the stuff of nightmares and its clumsy paean to the power of faith is like something from a poor episode of “Tales of the Unexpected”.

  8 out of 11 people found this review helpful

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Pour1Malt from Dumfries , 25/08/2005

The overwhelming message in this ‘UFO Thriller’ is that we should all be very afraid of people (or “beings”) who do not have faith… faith in what?… well, since this is a Mel “super-Christian” Gibson film you can bet the underlying message in faith in Christianity or Christian gods… if you view this film knowing that Gibson was once quoted saying- “American should be more afraid of atheists, they cannot be trusted and are a danger.” You will quickly see the parallels between this film and his fear of the faithless…. You have the priest character that loses his faith and then gains in back later to become the hero…. The faith of the little children… and the bizarre use of ‘holy water’ at the end of the film… just to drive it all home…

This film is pathetic…

  2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

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sammy from Hampshire , 14/10/2003

I travelled in by taxi the day after i watched this film, the taxi driver was raving about signs saying how wonderful he thought it was. I'm a fool, i should have taken the train. How could I even waste breath over how wrong he was! The reviews and trailers made this film to look like the alien sci fi flick of the decade, a winner, after all Mel does do good films! But no! The story starts to build up tension and fear but loses just as soon as it finds it. ET sent more fear up my spine than these aliens and the story just took a nose dive at the end. I'm so dispaointed for the director and cast, what could have been a box office hit, was a real flop... please, only consider watching this if you are being paid to do so or you have seen every film ever made ...twice.

  14 out of 18 people found this review helpful

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