Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi, Aliens, Suspense, Supernatural, Monsters, Revenge, Religion, Psychodrama
Tagline: It's Not Like They Didn't Warn Us.
Plot: It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. This is just one in a long list of strange occurrences that are changing the lives of the Hess family. Things go awry when Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) and his brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix), awake early one morning to find the dogs barking and the children--Bo, and her brother Morgan (Rory Culkin)--wandering bleary eyed in the corn fields. They discover a pattern of perfectly carved crop circles left the night before. Trying not to overreact, Graham ignores the media frenzy that has permeated all television and radio stations, and even shrugs off the oddly familiar information that Morgan reads in his book about extraterrestrials invading earth. The real challenge for Graham is to find the faith he needs to pull himself, and his family, through this unexplainable series of events.SIGNS is the long-anticipated film from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (THE SIXTH SENSE, UNBREAKABLE), a suspenseful and uniquely chilling family
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 "Signs," the latest supernatural chiller from M. Night Shyamalan, shows once again he's a master of terror. But he wants to be a shaman, not just a showman.--Andrew O'Hehir (Salon)
Make no mistake about it, this film is brilliant. The director is a modern day genius. The cast are multi-talented and so gifted. The screenplay is one which will be studied for years to come. And all-in-all, it will scare the living shit out of you!--Ryan Lester (Movie Marshal)
There's plenty of well placed humour in Signs to lighten the mood, something that is well appreciated as the tone of the film frequently becomes quite nerve racking. Signs is a great story for what it gives us, there's little you would filter out from it, but adding another hour to the film wouldn't have hurt in this case. 7.5/10--Paul Boschen (Movie Marshal)
Creepy, cooky, ooky and spooky. Shame about the ending though. 8/10--Jason Picker (Movie Marshal)
Great performances and an interesting view of an old-as-the-hills plot give this an interesting new breath of life. 8/10--Jason Szabo (Movie Marshal)
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. A+--Lee Tistaert (Lee's Movie Info)
Gibson gives one of the best performances of his career here, and that alone makes Signs worth seeing. Add to that a storyline that is genuinely scary, and you've got a winner on all accounts.  --David Nusair (Reel Film Reviews)
A tight, tense, thrill ride. M. Night delivers again!  --Stephen 'Kerouac' Lindsay (MovieWeb)
"Signs" finds the Oscar-nominated director taking risks, flirting with new genres and coming up with yet more ways of testing his audience. --Neil Smith (BBC Films)
M. Night Shyamalan continues to astonish as the modern day "master of suspense" with yet another original, chilling nail-biter which pulls you into its claustrophobic aura with detailed emphasis on one tight-knit family during one unfathomable worldly event. 8/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
Director M. Night Shyamalan’s follow-up to Unbreakable and The Sixth Sense – well-acted and superbly atmospheric with a black comic streak, but let down in the final reel. --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
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| His script is paced well, has enough comedy mixed with thrills and purposely plays up all the sensationalism of the premise for this nail biter. We're given characters we care about wrapped in a simple, yet complex, script and plenty of suspenseful moments that rely more on sound and mood than either gore of violence. -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
...when Shyamalan truly lays into the audience's emotions, he doesn't do so in the way we're used to. The finale is a notable example of this--it is a complex mixture of anger, fear, triumph, and pure, visceral exhilaration. 91/100--Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
Well directed, well acted and most important well spent money on this super fun sci-fi thriller, x-files fans will just love this!  --AnthroFred (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
Altogether this movie is a really cool horror movie, its in depth and attention to detail provides the basis for a great movie and with a excellent director like M. Night Shyamalan, its bound to be a classic in everyone's eyes. -- (terrorwatch.net)
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