Signs (Vista Series) | 
| Actors: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Clifford David, Lanny Flaherty, Rory Culkin
Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1214 reviews
Sales Rank: 747
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: D27899D
UPC: 786936197594
EAN: 0786936197594
ASIN: B00005JL3T
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: January 7, 2003
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Product Description
STORY OF THE HESS FAMILY IN BUCK COUNTY PA WHO WAKE UP ONE MORNING TO FIND A 500 FOOT CROP CIRCLE IN THEIR BACKYARD. EMOTIONAL STORY OF ONE FAMILY ON ONE FARM AS THEY ENCOUNTER TERRIFYING LAST MOMENTS OF LIFE AS THE WORLD IS INVADED.
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This B movie with noble aspirations is the work of a gifted filmmaker whose storytelling falls short of his considerable stylistic flair. While addressing crises of faith in the framework of an alien-invasion thriller, M. Night Shyamalan (in his follow-up to The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable) favors atmospheric tension over explanatory plotting. He injects subtle humor into expertly spooky scenes, but the story suffers from too many lapses in logic. The film's faults are greatly compensated by the performance of Mel Gibson as a widower whose own crisis of faith coincides with the appearance of mysterious crop circles in his Pennsylvania cornfield... and hundreds of UFOs around the globe. With his brother (Joaquin Phoenix) and two young children (Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin), the lapsed minister perceives this phenomenal occurrence as a series of signs and portents, while Shyamalan pursues a spookfest with War of the Worlds overtones. It's effective to a point, but vaguely hollow at its core. --Jeff Shannon
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 So-so June 21, 2009
S. B. Dupre (Shadowland)
I found the movie a bit annoying. How many farms are there in the United States do not have, SOMEWHERE, a 'varmit' gun? Honestly, very few. How fortunate for the aliens that they just happen to land right at the one farm in the state that doesn't a weapon,save kitchen knives, with which to fight. Is this alien blind luck or what? On the plus side, the acting, particularly the kids, quite good, the suspense enduring, and the story line decent.
But. I live in a very small town. I guarentee if we had an alien invasion the homeowned gunfire would be deafening. Unless nuks were required, I'm thinking most US towns could hold their own. Forget small towns - a place like Chicago would kick @ss and take names!
Sarcasm aside, not a horrible movie, and if you can get it at a good price, go for it.
 Total crap, an utter waste of time. The surface action is dumb and the deeper message is dumber. April 28, 2009
Lawrence Brown (HOUSTON, TX United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
SPOILER ALERT
Many reviewers here complained about the ridiculous plot holes and I agree. It's full of holes.
I see a lot of movies and I will walk if it looks lousy. There's 20+ movies to choose from, why waste time on a lousy one? If I hear lame dialog, a trite or cliche script, if I roll my eyes more than twice, I'm outta there. If the writer and director are lousy, they're not going to get any better. An exception to this is when they hire another writer or director after firing the lame one. An example of this is "The Muppets Take Manhattan," where the first half is lousy, but the second half is good and even great in some parts.
I walked on "Signs" after about 40 minutes and didn't look back. However, a family member insisted that it was good and all came together in the end, so I went back and watched the entire movie, start to end. Boy was I sorry, I should have stayed away.
The movie is ridiculous on various levels, but besides that, it has nothing worthwhile to offer.
As soon as the aliens came into the story, I was able to accurately predict the entire story: Aliens may or may not be here. As the movie progresses, the evidence of the aliens becomes more pronounced until we begin to see glimpses of them. From there we will go into the climax where we have a showdown with the aliens and win. That's a synopsis of the plot and who, I mean who, is going to say there is anything at all original about that? No one over the age of 13.
The movie plays out just as I predicted. But there's some quasi-religious mumbo-jumbo thrown in there that's really the point of the story. Fine, the only problem is that the mumbo-jumbo is so utterly ridiculous that it's laughable.
Unless I'm missing something (unlikely), the plot is this: God causes Gibson's wife to get horribly injured in an accident where she suffers in agony until Gibson can get there, whereupon she delivers a coded message from God to Gibson, without Gibson realizing it, and then she dies. This accident causes Gibson to lose his faith in God. Meanwhile, God has caused another family member that is a budding baseball star to suffer an injury and his career and life are ruined. Then, God causes the kid to have asthma and an irrational preoccupation with water, resulting in half glasses of water being left all over the house. Then, God causes all these circumstances to work together during an alien invasion of earth such that the coded message, the asthma, the water, and the sports career work together to defeat the aliens in the house and save lives. Gibson sees how God has wrought all of this and regains his faith. If that's it, that's the most utterly ridiculous, blasphemous, lame, contrived, etc story I've ever heard of.
So I'm wondering two things: 1: Is my understanding of the story complete and my laughter is justified, or did I miss something? And 2: How on earth did the guy that wrote the brilliant "The 6th Sense" write this load of tripe? It would seem that his contract with the movie studio includes a "right of subcontract" and he subcontracted his swimming pool cleaning guy to write this.
 Lowered Expectations, Then Enjoyed It April 25, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
I had the advantage of hearing nothing but bad things about this film before I saw it, so my expectations were low. Often times, I am pleasantly surprised after hearing all those negative remarks. I'd include this as another film "better than I expected, "but not good enough to watch a second time.
I watched it as a piece of entertainment, nothing else, and appreciated the sharp photography, too. In other words, I didn't read into anything with the story which so many others have seemed to do. Mel Gibson plays Hollywood's favorite type of clergyman: the kind who has lost his faith. That is, until, the strange turn of events at the end of the movie.
At least it is an entertaining movie, with good suspense and very little offensive material. This is the typical M. Night Shyamaian movie, which means it does a good job of hooking you into the story but doesn't always give you a satisfying ending.
M. Night Shyamalan's best aside from The Sixth Sense... April 19, 2009
B. Puline (U.S.A.)
Of course The Sixth Sense (Collector's Edition Series) is by far the best of M.N.S's movies but this is a close second. This is a director who tried to make an entire career out of movies that have crazy plot twists.
This movie is great because of Mel Gibson and J. Pheonix before he went crazy.
Own it...
marginally better than unbreakable March 10, 2009
megavoyager (philly)
that's all i've got to say. the 3rd worst (wide release) movie that old m. night kharma karma karma chameleon has made. it's ok, but not worth buying, even for $5. rent it from the library.
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