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Rating: Null/10 (15 September 2002)

Signs takes us back to a time in film making when suspense was a mainstay of pictures bordering on horror or science fiction genre. From the start, until it's finish-Signs gives us an old fashioned way of telling a scary story. It is a film in which the mood is felt in a very subtle way-from a soft breeze blowing across the rows of corn to the camera shots showing both a mixture of bright light and shadows. Mel Gibson does a great job with his role. His reaction to what is transpiring before him helps to build the suspense even more. He is able to convey more with his facial expressions, than with words. Hats off to the director and writer of this film. One of the best films I have seen in a long time at the theater. M