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Joaquin Phoenix as Merrill Hess
Rory Culkin as Morgan Hess
Abigail Breslin as Bo Hess
Cherry Jones as Officer Caroline Paski
Director is M. Night Shyamalan
Review Date is August 5, 2002
Thriller-Graham Hess is a former priest who lives in Bucks Count, Pennsylvania, on a farm. He lives with his brother Merrill, who was a former minor league baseball player, and his two kids, Morgan and Bo. Graham's wife was killed in a car accident. One morning, Morgan brings something to Graham's attention-there's a giant crop circle in the corn fields. More start happening all over the world, but Graham just dismisses them as hoaxes. However, Morgan, Bo, and even Merrill start to think otherwise, especially now that some lights have been seen in the sky.
8/10-"I see dead people", "Are you ready for the truth?", and now what saying will come from Signs? I guess it would be "It's happening". It's been said in the trailer (and the only thing spoken in the original theatrical trailer), and it gave away too much of the plot. The movie is not about crop circles, it's about the makers of the crop circles. The thrillingness is superb, you feel like you're there and you're walking through a giant hole in your fields.
Mel Gibson was well-developed as the farmer, but Joaquin, who is a great actor who needs to do more things, we weren't aquainted with. It doesn't seem like those two could be brothers, but I guess it's poetic liecense. I enjoyed Abigail as Bo, but I don't really understand how a kid could understand exactly what was going to happen. Shyamalan did an "Alfred Hitchcock" of sorts-he had a small part but not a walk-on. I thought he would do an actual Hitchcock.
To read this review with my gripes about the ending, click here
Rated PG-13 for thrillingness.