Signs the third movie from m. night shyamalan. As a fan of sixth sense and unbreakablewas one of thoose films that i had looked forward to for some time.
The film centres around Graham Hess (Mel gibson) and his family on there farm and there discovery of crop circles in there field. From here the first half of the film is a case of "whats going on?" Is it aliens or is it a hoax. The first half of the film is wonderfully suspensful as you are never entirely sure what is going on the direction is amazing and the acting is top notch even from the younger actors who play the children Morgan (Rory Culkin) and Bo (Abigail Breslin).
The second half of the film (without giving too much away) is again suspensful in parts, especially the basement scene, but was too strung out and had quite a bit of filler. All this leading to what seemed a very pointless ending that seemed to me like Mr shyamalan didn't really know how he wanted to end the film.
Most of the characters were well developed and intresting especially Gibsons Preacher who has lost his faith character, but his brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) although he had some of a back story was not really developed to my liking.
But the important thing is would i recommend this to you people? The answer would have to be yes although as i've said the ending is some what weak (unusal for an m. night shyamalan film) the rest of the film especially the first half is very entertaining with some very strong performances from all involved.
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Science Fiction - Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga - Original Language: Japanese - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Ayako Kawasumi, Fujiko Takimoto
Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
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Advantages: Keeps your attention, genuinely jumpy, strong performances from Gibson and Phoenix Disadvantages: Some flimsiness of plot, kids behind us at the cinema :-), predictable ending
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Advantages: Makes you think...and keep on thinking for ages afterwards, it has Mr Gibson in it, superb directing Disadvantages: A bit scary to be rated 12 - and all that thinking made my brain hurt
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