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	Signs (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the movie progresses, we see more televised news reports of crop circle sightings around the world, followed by sightings of UFOs, presumed to be of alien origin.
		The part of the movie where the family hides in the basement is very similar to a scene from H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds, in which the narrator hides in the cellar of an abandoned house.
		The first scenes shot on this movie were of the incident with Graham's wife the night she dies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Signs_(movie) (2251 words)

	Lee's Movie Info - 'Signs' Movie Review
		Signs is a nearly masterpiece in the genre of mystery and suspense, which if it weren't for the acting (it was good but not excellent) and an element involving the end result, this would be an easy, surefire classic masterpiece in my book of films.
		Signs is the kind of film that if Hitchcock were to telepathically view the picture, he would most likely climb out of his grave and give a standing ovation to Shyamalan's more-than-accomplished edition to the mystery and suspense field.
		Signs could in the near future be the one benchmark when critics are comparing future flicks of the genre to.
	www.leesmovieinfo.net /MovieReviews/SignsLee.html (1645 words)

	"Signs" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		It is in the course of this movie when "signs" appear that he is able to return to his - encouraged by those cloud of witnesses around - his children, his brother and even memories of his deceased wife.
		In Signs, the most strikingly foreign creature is not found among the ranks of the aliens that emerge on screen, but rather the Hollywood-birthed protagonist whose prodical return to the Christian faith is the pay-off and climax of his fictional existence.
		SIGNS reveals many spiritual truths and is rife with many symbolic messages such as the "power" of the water, God's omniscience/omnipotence, and the biggest message of the Bible--the reconciliation of oneself to God.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2002/signs.html (6353 words)

	Signs - DVD Movie Central
		Signs went on to become one of the top grossing films of 2002, but what’s even more spectacular to note is that for a movie of blockbuster status, it is somewhat of an original.
		The movie had an intense marketing campaign (and a good one, I might add) surrounding the crop signs and the possible sightings of creatures in the film, but lying underneath the story in the film was something much stronger.
		Signs in a knockout looking presentation that is consistently sharp and does not flaw for a single second.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/signs.htm (920 words)

	Jesusfreakhideout.com "Signs" Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		What the audience encounters is not only a movie that will make them jump out of their seats a few times, but they're also faced with the inner spiritual struggles of Gibson's character.
		And surprisingly enough, this movie is funnier than a lot of intended comedies (and not accidentally, either).
		If Signs isn't causing you to look over your shoulder or helps you to develop a new fear of corn fields, it's pulling at your heart strings and liable to jerk a few tears in a natural way without being forced.
	www.jesusfreakhideout.com /movies/Signs.asp (916 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Signs Movie Review
		His latest film, Signs, is another showcase for those sensibilities, providing a story wherein the artifice becomes a natural part of the drama.
		In the abstract, Signs concerns the appearance of a crop circle on the property of the Hess family, whose patriarch Graham (Gibson) is undergoing a crisis of faith.
		Signs features some truly scary moments (a piece of video news footage, shot at a Brazilian birthday party, may be the most unsettling thing you'll see on-screen this year), but uses them as the garnish, not the main course.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /signs.html (891 words)

	Really Scary Movie Reviews: SIGNS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Signs, Shyamalan gives himself a small but important role that might have been more effective in the hands of a skilled actor.
		In Signs, the alien invasion is the McGuffin.
		But in the end, all that matters in Signs is fear and dread and suspense, and they are served up with great style, and with an impressive amount of restraint.
	www.reallyscary.com /reviewssigns.asp (1235 words)

	Donner's Movie Reviews: Signs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Signs, set mostly at a remote farm in Pennsylvania, follows former minister and widower, Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his family of two children and his live-in brother.
		Shyamalan has concocted a movie that so perfectly blends together terror and suspense and even the necessary comic relief moments, that I'm almost tempted to say that this is the perfect scary movie.
		Sure, other movies may do that - such as Independence Day or Red Planet - but in Signs, the issues are actually essential to the story and a vital part to the movie instead of appearing like some tacked-on afterthought.
	www.slightlywarped.com /movies/S/signs.htm (673 words)

	Signs - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Signs is a much different picture, a small movie that avoids the flashy effects to focus on the thrill and fear of the unknown.
		However, when Breslin thinks she sees someone in the house and Gibson believes he sees someone one night in the cornfield, the word "pranksters" is tossed to the wind and a scary "something else" comes to the forefront.
		Signs is a thriller in the truest sense of the word.
	www.tollbooth.org /2002/movies/signs.html (2027 words)

	Signs: A Movie Review by Jack Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It's a terrifying movie, even though the scares aren't enormous, violent or even sudden, because Shyamalan is one of the few modern directors who know what fear is. Fear is not something jumping out of a corner and yelling "boo!" nor is it, suffice it to say, a torrent of blood and guts.
		Signs lives and breaths these moments, and it is a masterpiece because of it.
		Signs has the best premise of them all, taking something as cinematically recognizable as crop circles and UFOs, and applying them to a centered and unique story.
	www.mooremovies.com /signs.htm (1064 words)

	Signs: Movie-Source.com Signs Movie, Signs Preview, Signs Review
		No doubt many of the scenes in the movie are thought out in his mind before he actually writes them, so it is quite impressive that he is consistent in his writing.
		The small twist that the movie takes is somewhat clever but not all that related to the point of the movie, which made me think that Shyamalan was just trying to work in something deeper for the sake of doing something deeper, where as in The Sixth Sense things just came more naturally.
		The movie is called "Signs" and as such, "signs" begin to prop up during the film which draws to the conclusion at the end.
	www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=1055 (1313 words)

	Signs (2002) Movie Review by John Sylva at The Movie Insider
		Signs' third act, while a far cry from the twist ending of The Sixth Sense and the beguiling resolution of Unbreakable, presents a new plot development that works mostly to the film's disadvantage.
		Signs is one of the few recent Hollywood thrillers capable of finding delight in the coincidence of laughs, scares, and brains to create the total package, not only making this a sure-fire hit at the box office but ruling the director's future projects must-sees as well.
		Signs, flaws in tact, is a hugely entertaining popcorn thrill ride that is the noisy, chilling, audacious picture audiences often complain about Hollywood not making anymore, one that knows how to scare its audience and doesn't hold back.
	www.themovieinsider.com /mr131-signs-movie-review.html (1016 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Signs
		I just returned home from watching Signs and it was such a great movie that I had to write a review as soon as possible.
		For example, in movies like Scream, the killer was so nonfrightening that I wanted to join the story and meet him at his next stop.
		Signs is a marvelous movie and I suggest that everyone see this one, except for younger viewers as it will definitely frighten them….even the older ones.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/signs.htm (231 words)

	The movie "Signs" in four easy steps. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The best thing about this movie was the score at the beginning during the credits, and only because the composer, James Newton Howard, ripped off Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony Op.
		This movie wouldn't have been so bad if it actually went somewhere.
		That's exactly what "Signs" is like: the camera man zooming up on some guy's ass for two hours.
	www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net /c.cgi?u=signs (108 words)

	Empire Movies - Reviews - Signs - By Blair Barbesin
		In fact, this movie is so good that even if you aren't a fan of that old TV show, you'll still love this movie.
		To be perfectly honest, before this movie came out, and after seeing the trailer's for Jason X and Halloween part whatever, I was seriously lamenting (yes, I do lament) about how I haven't seen a truly good horror movie since the first Nightmare on Elm Street.
		This movie isn't so much a horror movie as it is a story about a man and his faith in God and how it is restored using this horror movie as a catalyst.
	www.empiremovies.com /reviews/blair/signs.shtml (718 words)

	Modamag.com \| Signs (Movie Review)
		The movie is slow, very slow, but it's like a puzzle that fits together very neatly at the end.
		Now about the movie I agree with most other people that the first half of the movie is very good.
		Yes, it flies in the face of everything Night's movies ascribe to (an aversion to the obvious), but it was nice to see a real kick butt scene, impeccably scored by James Newton Howard.
	www.modamag.com /signs.htm (4861 words)

	Signs Movie Review
		Signs is a movie that proves that less can be more when a great film maker is at work.
		As is normally the case with Shyamalan's work, you really want to watch the movie for the first time knowing as little as possible about the story in advance.
		This is clever in that it makes the movie less predictable than it would be if we knew everything we needed to know about the characters 15 minutes into the film.
	www.moviesforguys.com /thriller/reviews/signs.shtml (431 words)

	Movie Review - Signs
		Night Shyamalan, the director of Signs, also happens to be the director of the last movie I reviewed, The Sixth Sense.
		The denouement, with the final alien conflict, was anti-climactic and almost as unoriginal as having all the aliens dropping dead from the flu.
		Signs is not a bad movie, but I might have felt I had gotten my money's worth if afterward, we had snuck into Goldmember.
	www.squirtonline.com /tries/signs.html (608 words)

	Signs - Movie Review
		Phoenix positively owns this movie, acting circles (no pun intended) around his bigger-name co-star and standing out as fundamentally the only character to whom the audience can relate.
		Signs is quite unexpected, not that it's particularly inventive in story (it really is Panic Room on a farm, with aliens), dialogue ("That's how these things were done in the past…"), or character (a kid's asthma creates a crisis when his inhaler is lost… sound familiar?).
		The Signs DVD features about five minutes of deleted scenes (no more spooky alien critters, alas), a lengthy making-of documentary with commentaries, and another stellar film from Night's youth -- wherein a robot wearing a Halloween mask slowly chases Night through his living room.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/signs (650 words)

	Louisville Scene \| Movies \| Movie Review \| 'Signs' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Night Shyamalan's latest is the creepiest, scariest movie to come out of Hollywood since last summer's "The Others." Mel Gibson plays a widowed farmer and former minister whose shattered faith is tested when ominous crop circles appear in his fields, portending the arrival of visitors from the skies.
		Writer-director Shyamalan's ''Signs'' is the creepiest, scariest movie to come out of Hollywood since last summer's ghost tale ''The Others,'' maybe even since Shyamalan's ''The Sixth Sense'' three years ago.
		As in ''The Sixth Sense'' and ''Unbreakable,'' Shyamalan ladles on religious imagery in ''Signs.'' The notion of the purgative powers of water is especially prevalent.
	www.courier-journal.com /scene/movies/reviews/2002/20020802signs.html (569 words)

	Signs (Movie)
		In Signs, the new film from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, Mel Gibson plays Graham Hess, an Episcopal pastor who loses his faith after his wife is killed in a car accident.
		Science fiction, in books and movies, has been used in the past as a vehicle for all kinds of message-mongering, and usually some schlock also manages to poke through.
		That's why this movie, like his two previous forays into the supernatural, is so laden with dark and doomy imagery and cryptlike silences.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /movies/articles/02/08/signs.htm (626 words)

	Signs - movie review
		This sci-fi thriller, directed by the excellent M Night Shyamalan focuses on the mysterious appearance of a five hundred-foot design of circles and lines which suddenly appear carved into a family's crops and the journey they take into uncovering their meaning and who put them there.
		After a while, we realise that the 'signs' of the title are markers for an alien intelligence, who, as in all great sci-fi plots, are out to take over the world.
		This isn’t meant to be a dig at Shyamalan's movie - I really loved it - but the reason I did was because the director himself knows that every classic sci-fi cliché in the book is being used, but he does it in such a way that it is really enjoyable.
	www.phase9.tv /moviereviews/signs.shtml (503 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Signs
		That the movie works as well as it does, despite an outlandish plot, is a tribute to Shyamalan's prowess as a director, and to some fine acting performances.
		During the crop circle crisis Graham and his brother engage in an interesting philosophical conversation, the upshot of which is that people of faith believe they have help when facing the unknown.
		Another part of the movie that works well is the isolation of the small family on the farm.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/new/signs.html (1340 words)

	Movie Forums - Signs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is part of a trilogy to consist of three movies bound together by tone and, perhaps, overall message/moral...but not by characters or central plot points.
		Well, Signs is obviously set in rural Pennsylvania (Bucks County accordng to the film's site, which is north of the city) and not Philadelphia proper.
		But it seemed kind of goofy on a soundtrack for that movie (especially considering that he was not even in the movie, though he directed it).
	www.movieforums.com /community/showthread.php?t=1492 (1824 words)

	Movie Forums :: Reviews :: "Signs" - Shyamalan's Latest, and Greatest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		What makes Signs (and Shyamalan's other recent films, for that matter) so revolutionary is that, rather than try to excel in any one genre, it decides to excel in virtually all of them.
		Signs' remarkable score comes courtesy of James Newton Howard, who composed the scores for Night's last two flicks, as well as dozens of others over the years.
		The elder of the two (Morgan Hess, played by Culkin) is intelligent and interesting and, thankfully, is completely missing the vibe many of today's intelligent movie children have: the "this child's dialogue was obviously written by an adult" vibe that dominates so many young characters in today's movies.
	www.movieforums.com /reviews/198 (883 words)

	Signs review
		Signs is about former minister-turned-corn-farmer Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his children (Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin) who discover crop circles in their field.
		Gibson is, of course, eloquent as a grief-stricken father, still haunted by the death of his wife and rediscovering his faith while trying to hold the family together during what appears to be an alien invasion.
		His compelling stories that may seem risky or out in left field, breathe new life into mainstream Hollywood and show us that he trusts his audience to be far more intelligent then to be dealt such duds as Halloween: Resurrection and Jason X for scares.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/signs.html (498 words)

	Signs Review Movie Review Film Signs: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin; Review ...
		That is until Hess and his family discover a series of bizarre patterns in their cornfield and notice odd behavior from the family pets.
		To me, "Signs" evoked memories of classic episodes of the "Twilight Zone" where the human drama and imagined fear carried the story rather than an array of FX.
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	www.movieeye.com /reviews/read_movie_review/677.html (841 words)

	Signs - Movie Rental Review
		This movie has extreme tension and peril, though it is not graphic or gory.
		Parents should know that this movie has extreme tension and peril, though it is not graphic or gory.
		Families who see this movie should talk about whether they see patterns and purpose in what occurs around them and what it means to them.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/Signs.html (724 words)

	Signs Movie Review - MovieWeb
		Signs is about faith, God, and accepting those atrocities which plaque or daily existence; like M. Night Shyamalan casting himself in, not a lead role, but, one that is essential to the plot in every way.
		Signs would be a benign experience, and with it being as slow as it is in parts, the whole package would be dead in the water.
		This is the second movie in which M. Night seems overly preoccupied with water.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/81/81/review389.php (1473 words)

	Signs Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As a result of this accident, Hess leaves the constrictions of his vocation and questions his faith with unceasing volatility, until a series of crop "signs" are discovered on his property.
		His young brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix), has moved in with the family to help keep the farm, hearth and kin afloat, as it is ferried down the River Styx and to the open arms of aliens who will make up the "second" story of this film.
		The special effects of "Signs" are of the maniacal, crazed and evil variety -- translation: the aliens.
	www.thecelebritycafe.com /movies/full_review/136.html (1226 words)

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