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"Signs"
delivers thrills and chills in a big way.
M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs" follows up his wildly
successful "The Sixth Sense" and the very underrated
"Unbreakable" and hits another home run.
Mel
Gibson stars as a Reverend who has lost his faith due to losing
his wife in an accident. He now lives with his two kids played
wonderfully by Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin, and his ex-minor
league baseball player brother, played by Joaquin Phoenix.
They live out on a farm and wake up one morning to find crop
circles in their corn field.
With
that the story is set in motion and you won't touch your popcorn
again until the end of the movie. Shyamalan starts with a
haunting score provided by James Newton Howard that is reminiscent
of the old Hitchcock films and then uses silence to build
tension.
He
plays with angles and sounds and colors to make you think
you are seeing things you're not and disguises things you
should.
The
trick with this movie is that you think it is about one thing
but in the end you learn that you have been told a different
story.
Gibson
and the rest of the cast give us believable performances as
characters put in an unbelievable circumstance.
"Signs"
made me jump numerous times and sent chills down my spine
as well. It was able to push buttons that most movies only
wish they could.
The
scares are solid and there are a ton of laughs in the film.
Shyamalan takes time to get your heart pumping so hard with
tension that he then adds humor to get it back into your chest.
By doing this he makes the tension even stronger.
There
are things that I will not give away about this movie. Just
make sure you go see it.
From
me to you, all "Signs" point to YES.
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