Signs (2002)

Not Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto

Composer: James Newton Howard

Cast: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, Cherry Jones

A former preacher, who renounced his faith following the gruesome, accidental death of his wife, prepares for the imminent alien invasion with his two young children and screw-up younger brother at their remote rural home, in Shyamalan’s intriguingly written if ineffectively shot sci-fi thriller-cum-family drama, which never really captures the sense of fear that it needs to succeed. Iain.Stott