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The Signal (2014)
Potential wasted
17 September 2014 - 76 out of 116 users found this review helpful.
*Spoiler Alert*
The plot is very simple and the movie could have been perfectly executed as a short film, however, there are a whole lot of 'rhetorical' scenes to fill up the movie, thus substance was replaced with pseudo style and a full-length feature is born.
'Three college kids get kidnapped by aliens', which seems like a very basic formula to follow, but the director decided to overburden the movie with countless scenes that just cluttered the plot:
- Cow? - Alien prosthetics - Secret codes and riddles - Over use of slow-motion - River scene - Weird locals - Guns to kill locals
...and many more - none of which are explained - and, in my honest opinion, add any style which is what I think the director was aiming for. The special effects and the actors (which weren't too terrible), could have benefited from a well thought out script.
3 stars for the effects which were the only redeeming quality of the movie. As someone in the forum pointed out, this is what happens when hipsters try to make sci-fi. There are some hipster sci-fi enthusiasts out there judging from the score and some reviews but there is a large majority that wants coherency in what they watch.
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