Science Fiction & Fantasy > Shyamalan, M. Night Science Fiction & Fantasy

Advantages: Very absorbing, suspenseful, Good performances
Disadvantages: The ending (somewhat anti-climactic and the visuals of the aliens), a bit too 'Hollywood' perhaps

...main acting cast) - Signs is all about the Hess family, who are recovering after the sudden death of their wife and mother, Colleen (played by Patricia Kalember). The father, Graham Hess (played by Mel Gibson), has recently given up being a Reverend/priest, as he questions faith due to what happened to his wife. He lives at home on a farm with his sons Merrill (layed by Joaquin Phoenix) and Morgan (played by Rory Culkin) and his daughter Bo (played ...
...- My Thoughts/Opinions - Signs is a suspenseful science fiction thriller, brought to you by the director of other similar movies like the Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and The Village, M. Night Shyamalan. This movie has some of the usual elements of his other movies, although one thing thats slightly different is that your shown more, visually, at certain points towards the end of the movie mostly, of the aliens or presence there, though even then its ... Read review

Advantages: an imaginatve story
Disadvantages: very poorly portrayed

...story //////////\\\\\\\\ The story of lady in the water is one of building manager Cleveland Heep who rescues a mysterious young woman from danger to discover she is actually a narf (a character from a bedtime story) who is trying to make the journey from our world back to hers. Slowly but surely Heep and his fellow tenants begin to realise they too are characters in this story. As Heep falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman he has rescued ...
...keep her safe from the terrifying creatures in this fable. The creatures however are determined she wont return home and Heep begins to realise he has his work cut out and is unsure of whom he can rely on. My opinion //////////\\\\\\\\\\ Whilst a lot of the acting in the movie was of high standard and the story an imaginative one, much of the story and script is very weak. It seems to me like the idea was always there but they were never sure ... Read review

Advantages: A different story to the norm
Disadvantages: Starts to drag about midway through the movie

When this film was first advertised I really looked foward to it as M Night Shylaman has had some really good movies Signs being one of my favorites and this looked to be going back on track after the disappointment with The Village. The film centres around the caretaker Cleveland Heep played by Paul Giamatti of an ordinary apartment block who just goes about his daily business until one day he finds a girl called Story in the water played by Bryce ...
...has to return to her world once her mission is accomplished and this is being hampered by otherwordly wolves that have been sent to destroy her. A group of the residents,rallied together by Cleveland, then have to work out how to get Story back to her own world and in the process they realise that they aren't all just living in the same apartment block by chance but have special quailites that were meant for just this time. Although the film starts ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining, cleverly written.
Disadvantages: Lengthy bits now and again.

...the abilities needed for the lady in the water to complete her mission, and these humans have been reunited within one apartment complex (makes life easier I suppose)... anyways, along the way, evil creatures are out to destroy the lady in the lake, and it's up to the humans (the chosen ones) to save her from the evil ones. Again, you're thinking... boring... you're even yawning (I know you are)... but wait... this is a Shyamalan movie... (Sixth ...
...so cleverly written, it's incredible. Shyamalan has purposely set the mood, he's even pushed you (kicking and screaming) down the path that leads to the movie's inevitable conclusion... there are no secrets, you know what's going to happen... the path is almost at its end, and then, low and behold, Shyamalan erects a brick wall and shoves you smack into it! Still dizzy from the impact, you realize that it isn't the plot that's important... it's the ... Read review

Advantages: A good interesting story
Disadvantages: A lot of underused characters

After finding a mysterious young woman lurking in the pool at the apartment block that he caretakes, lonely apartment block manager Cleveland Heep rescues her from drowning. Unbeknown to him, she is an otherworldy being called Story who exists within the confounds of a famous bedtime story. Her motives are revealed in the form of a message for humanity. Surrounded by people who act as some kind of canvas for the story, Cleveland discovers that each ...
...key to unlocking the secrets and assisting her safely home. And as danger looms over the habitants of the apartment complex and the wide-eyed Story, everybody congregates to protect her from an evil beast that lurks in the grass and can be seen only in mans reflection. Director and writer M Night Shyamalan has become reknowned for his fantastical story's of other worldly existences. The ultimate pay off in his films are their tremedously believable ... Read review