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VIDEO RELEASE
Aug 19, 2003 (DVD)
NUMBERS
Box Office: $227,935,522
VHS Rentals: $27,650,000
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CONSENSUS
With Signs, Shyamalan proves once again an expert at building suspense and giving audiences the chills.
CAST & CREW
Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
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SYNOPSIS
It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, some frightening moments
RUNTIME
1 hour, 46 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 2, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Touchstone Pictures
GENRE
Horror/Suspense, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Aliens, Family Interaction, Suspense, Thriller, Supernatural, Farms, Alien Attacks, Alien Invasions
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Signs Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
NEWS ARTICLES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "[Shyamalan] continues to cut a swathe through mainstream Hollywood, while retaining an integrity and refusing to compromise his vision."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "If you go into the theater expecting a scary, action-packed chiller, you might soon be looking for a sign. An EXIT sign, that is."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
"Shyamalan offers copious hints along the way -- myriad signs, if you will -- that beneath the familiar, funny surface is a far bigger, far more meaningful story than one in which little green men come to Earth for harvesting purposes."
-- Robert Wilonsky, DALLAS OBSERVER
"It's a much more emotional journey than what Shyamalan has given us in his past two movies, and Gibson, stepping in for Bruce Willis, is the perfect actor to take us on the trip."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Shyamalan takes a potentially trite and overused concept (aliens come to Earth) and infuses it into a rustic, realistic, and altogether creepy tale of hidden invasion."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"The work of a filmmaker who has secrets buried at the heart of his story and knows how to take time revealing them. Strange occurrences build in the mind of the viewer and take on extreme urgency."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"Os problemas têm início a partir do momento em que saímos do cinema e começamos a pensar sobre o que acabamos de ver. É então que Sinais realmente desaponta."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"I've already seen this one twice, and it was even better the second time."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"If Signs is a good film, and it is, the essence of a great one is in there somewhere."
-- Joshua Vasquez, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"Reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, most of the scary parts in 'Signs' occur while waiting for things to happen."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"Conceptually brilliant...Plays like a living-room War Of The Worlds, gaining most of its unsettling force from the suggested and the unknown."
-- Scott Tobias, ONION AV CLUB
"Shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom."
-- Jeet Thayil, REDIFF.COM
"Uncommonly stylish but equally silly...the picture fails to generate much suspense, nor does it ask searching enough questions to justify its pretensions."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
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"An old-fashioned scary movie, one that relies on lingering terror punctuated by sudden shocks and not constant bloodshed punctuated by flying guts."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"Writer/ director M. Night Shyamalan’s ability to pull together easily accessible stories that resonate with profundity is undeniable."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"It's a shame the marvelous first 101 minutes have to be combined with the misconceived final 5."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"It has a way of seeping into your consciousness, with lingering questions about what the film is really getting at."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"…an eerily suspenseful, deeply absorbing piece that works as a treatise on spirituality as well as a solid sci-fi thriller."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"There are now two signs that M. Night Shyamalan’s debut feature sucked up all he has to give to the mystic genres of cinema: Unbreakable and Signs."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"Despite its sincere acting, Signs is just another unoriginal run of the mill sci-fi film with a flimsy ending and lots of hype."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"A moody horror/thriller elevated by deft staging and the director's well-known narrative gamesmanship."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"What starts off as a potentially incredibly twisting mystery becomes simply a monster chase film."
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"Hollywood has taken quite a nosedive from Alfred Hitchcock's imaginative flight to Shyamalan's self-important summer fluff."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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ROTTEN 57%
Avg. Rating: 6.5/10 |
"For most of its footage, the new thriller proves that director M. Night Shyamalan can weave an eerie spell and that Mel Gibson can gasp, shudder and even tremble without losing his machismo."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Sitting through the last reel (spoiler alert!) is significantly less charming than listening to a four-year-old with a taste for exaggeration recount his Halloween trip to the Haunted House."
-- Jessica Winter, VILLAGE VOICE
"The film boasts dry humor and jarring shocks, plus moments of breathtaking mystery."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"As they used to say in the 1950s sci-fi movies, Signs is a tribute to Shyamalan's gifts, which are such that we'll keep watching the skies for his next project."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"[Shyamalan] turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit, purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more than body count."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"A complex story told with assurance and performed with quiet conviction, Signs smoothly and stylishly blends scares and substance."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Skillful as he is, Mr. Shyamalan is undone by his pretensions."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"The movie is almost completely lacking in suspense, surprise and consistent emotional conviction."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"The soul-searching deliberateness of the film, although leavened nicely with dry absurdist wit, eventually becomes too heavy for the plot."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"It's easy for a filmmaker to blow up the world -- but what Shyamalan does is much riskier. He tries to blow our minds."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
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"If Shayamalan wanted to tell a story about a man who loses his faith, why didn't he just do it, instead of using bad sci-fi as window dressing?"
-- Collin Souter, EFILMCRITIC.COM
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Signs" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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