Worth the Price of admission

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2002)

At first, i was leary to see Signs. Afterall i didn't really buy into the hype surrounding The Sixth Sense,I thought is was a good movie with a great ending but it really wasn't that scary in the tradional sense. Certainly not the "scariest movie of all time" as some tooted it to be. Signs proved to be the best yet from director M. Night Shaymalan. It wasn't like the plethora of moderen horror films which feel that they have to throw buckets and blood around to be scary. It was a hold on to the hand of your date for dear life movie to be sure. My heart raced from the first 5 minutes to the credits. I was bown away by everything from the erie X-File type music that surrounds the action to the terrific camera angles!! Mel Gibson seems to take the backseat when it comes to most fo the script. The really good lines belong to Joaquin Pheonix (who shows that his funny bone throughout the movie) and the best lines belong to the kids Rory Culkin and Abigal Breslin. The humor perfectly sprinkles the suspense so the viewer is disarmed enough to catch his or her breath every second during the final 30 minutes.
Signs is a great movie that definatly is the best of the bunch when it comes to scary movies this year. The movie was short on special effects but definatly long in the fright department. The story is kind of predictable in some parts but it is still worth the cost of admission to see it. When it comes to DVD, i can't wait to turn out the lights and hold my date close again.