Signs

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
Review Post Date: 27.9.2002
Starring:
Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Abigail Breslin, Rory Culkin...

Reviewed by Che

Can’t help it folks, Reviews come late as usual here at tha Pigies.. Even tough the Theatrical release have been seen more than a month ago the review been forgotten, so now will try to set mind in motion and remember what was that we were watching n’ compensate those of you who haven’t watched it yet n’ share thoughts with those who did.

M. Night Shyamalan sounds like a combination of a’ east Asian Superhero n’ exotic weed o’ same naming to you ?
Well it’s not. “What is it?” you wonder? .. The Answer is Who.

N’ who apparently is Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan , and if it was his or hisn’t choice to change his/her name in such a Heroic translation is one of the things we wouldn’t discuss any further.

What we will discuss is hern’t latest creation which he Written , Directed n’ even Co-Stared in as the lil’ Indian guy (a surprising transition from his usual big-fat-drunk-Russian look), The Creation’s called Signs™ and is telling the story of Alien invasion trough a Farmer who’s played by Mel Gibson and his family who’re played by all not yet important to notice lil’ kids and that’s because they’re lil’ n’ are Kids but f’corse n’ em kid’s uncle Joaquin Phoenix most probably known to you as the Emperor Commodus from GLADIATOR™ and the dude from 8MM, The idea behind the story is all em’ Crop Circles n’ the phenomena around it bringin’ the silly Naïve question “What are they and who made them” which The Creation™ tryn’ to answer with the most popular theory o’ which we won’t spoil to you.

I enjoyed both previous Shyamalan’s flicks they were somewhat original and even tough used old good techniques to raise the adrenaline pumpin’ in yer blood it all worked well for him in Sixth Sense and less in Unbreakable. At least them both were shot well and had nice camera works you don’t see in many of films today.

Except the Cheap Techniques o’ spookyn’ the shit out o’ ya that really worked in the previous once as preparin’ ya fo’ the next ‘shock’ (khe khe) that really worked n’ Technical but Artistic Camera issues this movie got numerous faults and ain’t even sure which brought it down, My speculation at this moment of what I remember is the Script , haven’t seen it to tell how well it was written but from how it adapted on screen I am pretty sure it was written and based all on the Cheap Thrill technique ala same formula looping all over the film. That what ruined it all and here goes the formula :

Treasure:
*DRM= Dumb Romantic Moment specialy written for GL appearance
*GL = GREEN Limb of human painted in green
*CGLWBIB = Combination of Green Limbs with body in between

Formula :
DRM + Pause with silly music +DRM = Spook the shit of the stupid audience once.

DRM + Pause with silly music +DRM = Spook the shit of the stupid audience twice.

DRM + Pause with silly music +GL! = Spook the shit of the stupid audience trice.

DRM + Pause with silly music +GL! +DRM + CGLWBIB!!!!= Spook the shit of the stupid fuckers audience that still didn’t got the formula n’ make em’ shit their pants this time screamin’ becoz known’t where it fell on them from.

Almost no goodies at all and a stupid story as cover to deliver the stupid formula what describes this Creation™.

If ya live anywhere where they still screen it in public my advice is avoid it skip it jump anywhere but near it unless you know this won’t be full of stupid audience that don’t know how to handle shit like that. Where this worth watching is late night home on Cable TV after you done all ya could and got nothing better to do , then you might even enjoy it.

Rated:
Sacrifice 2 Sheeps for oy
CGLWBIB ma' ass.