Signs

Pros: Fright, faith and unexpectedly funny moments blend into a challenging, rewarding movie
Cons: Shyamalan's films are, I guess, an acquired taste: you either love 'em or hate 'em.

M. Night Shyamalan is a master at misdirection. We sit down to watch one of his films, expecting one thing—ghosts, comic book superheroes, UFOs—but rise from our seat two hours later realizing we’ve experienced something completely different.
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Pros: performances, two story lines
Cons: third story line

M. Night Shayamalan has now directed three big screen theatrical releases that have received attention from the viewing public (well, two, if you consider The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable to be pretty much the same movie). Each has made...

Pros: The humor.
Cons: Miscasting, typical tear-jerker moments

Preamble
It's official. I'm the last person in the world to see this movie. That's okay. Sometimes being the last means that you don't get sucked into the hype and therefore you're able to make a better decision on whether you liked the...

Pros: Great scares, great chemistry with the family, authentic "old days" feel.
Cons: The last "sign" is kind of silly, it's more about faith than aliens or cropcircles.

Maybe it's luck, maybe it's a miracle. But the sign is there... and it reads, Speed Limit 20.

When you sit there for 15 minutes pondering how in the world you're supposed to introduce your stance on a movie like Signs, it can...

Pros: Gibson, Phoenix, Breslin, interesting story
Cons: predictable, unoriginal plot

I have to say that I first saw this movie with my cousin when it came out in the theaters. Why have I delayed writing a review until now? I have no idea, but I just saw this movie on DVD again last week, which will make it my fourth viewing. And I still ...

Pros: Moody, professionally crafted, well acted, some scary moments
Cons: It's not about aliens and what it is about may annoy some people

[M. Night Shyamalan's films are first and foremost an acquired taste. And they are an acquired taste that some people are quite passionate about. If you're going to trust or not trust my opinion, you should possibly glance at this little breakdown I like...

Pros: Tries something worth trying.
Cons: Fails.

****There is a sense in which it might be fair to say that this review will ‘spoil’ this movie for you, as I will be discussing the movie in its entirety, and thus giving away the ending. Unlike Shyamalan’s other major releases, ‘Signs’ does not rely on...

Pros: The children in this film turn in excellent performances.
Cons: Underlying struggle of man-versus-god, man-versus-self. I wanted man-versus-alien.

I was disappointed by M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie, Signs. It's is clearly on its way to becoming a huge blockbuster hit, but it probably won't be a title that I'll be adding to my DVD collection when it is released on video.

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Pros: It's far better than the director's current "The Village."
Cons: It's more psychological than "Alien" or "Predator."

M. Night Shyamalan's (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable) Signs is an atypical invaders-from-space movie that emphasizes character and thematic development over the all-too-familiar big-budget special effects extravaganza a la Independence Day. Instead of ...

Pros: Frightening, heartbreaking and funny.
Cons: nothing worth writing about.

Signs is a movie about a family that lives on a farm in Buck County in Philadephia. The farm has an old days feeling, being surrounded by cornfields and being a rural county it is just the place for this type of movie.

The opening scenes take...

Pros: Mysterious alien forms slowly revealed, completed plot, somewhat frightening
Cons: To much focus on one family, seems like an isolated incident and not worldwide

I saw the preview for Signs and thought it looked like a sci-fi horror film, something you might associate with Aliens or Predator. Signs does have a sense of horror and mystery, but the director had other goals in mind, ...

Pros: Scary moments that don't rely on gore and excessive violence
Cons: Melodrama that slows down the action

Could it be? Am I actually reviewing a MAINSTREAM release film? For the new M. Night Shyamalan film, SIGNS, I absolutely will.

Perhaps one of the most intriguing looking films of the summer, SIGNS takes it’s basis in ideas near and dear to...

Pros: Phoenix, the point of view, the message, Gibson, the musical score
Cons: Once again it involves a couple of dogs

I was prepared to hate this movie, probably because I assumed if everyone liked it, I would not. I am however, pleasantly wrong again. The movie is not perfect, and I will tell you why I think so- but it is still entertaining. And unlike two of the...

Pros: A seasoned Mel Gibson and a very good Joaquin Phoenix as his straight man.
Cons: Uneven reactions to the threat.

The theaters are packing them in to see Signs as the picture makes its run for the roses. This is a movie well worth seeing because, stylistically, as much as anything, it harks back to the good old Spielberg-style movies of the 80s and 90s.
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Pros: Good production values
Cons: Stupid story that falls apart.

Oh no! The aliens are coming! When I was growing up, we heard about space aliens who came to Earth and helped to build the various pyramids of the ancient world as a fantastical marking system for them to land. Further proof of space aliens came in the...