I would so love to be able to tell you that Signs joins M. Night Shyamalan‘s last movie Unbreakable as one of my favourite movies. I just can’t.
I loved this movie, the only way I can describe it is: fucking awesome. I have not enjoyed a
movie this much since Spider-Man. From the outset I was hooked. Tension was built within the first two minutes and it just kept building from there. I don’t know if I have seen this done any better. I was completely enthralled and I was just waiting to see where it would go next. And it worked 100%, it just worked. I was sitting there wondering how in the hell this was going to end. Several times I was going if this ends just now it will be perfect and it will make the list.
I had really high hopes for the ending. Given the writer/directors previous movies I wasn’t expecting it to be the typical Hollywood ending, I was wrong. It suddenly became completely predictable and flat. It just didn’t work. It was a happy ending tacked onto a dark chilling movie. There were quite a few funny moments in it, the hats for one thing made me laugh twice and the comments about the “nerds” was spot on awesome. Speaking of spot on, the cast were that and then some. Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix came off really well together as brothers and were completely believable. They were both however acted off the screen by the two kids. Wow, they were both fantastic.
I feel hideously let down by the ending but thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the movie. I suspect I will buy this on DVD and I will click stop when he gets the TV.
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