The Signal (2014)
1/10
A stupid farcical ripoff that is technically excellent. A con!!!
25 July 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Aliens with incredible technology abduct humans and relocate them to a spaceship floating in space.( dark city, cube etc)but the humans can freely escape and wonder round the ship and hide away on a completely pointless recreation of area 51(like a dad joke) then they are shot with a human handgun. when the film reveals whats going on in the last few seconds then you realise the plot was just a load of garbage taped together.

A film all about appearances, but ultimately a hoax.A 4 MILLION technical showreel for the filmmaker. A film that is much less than the sum of its parts. Technically excellent, editing, cinematography, acting etc, looks like a much bigger budget. A derivative film that uses the exact same ending and premise as many other films but could have been cut in half for viewing time and edited in reverse fashion for an honest delivery. it strings you out to the end to deliver the tiny amount of substance this film contains, but its definitely technically excellent, and its this aspect that fools the sci fi hungry viewer.in the end its a stupid ripoff on numerous levels. Lots of contradictions that make absolutely no sense but you wont know this till the end.A more than healthy dose of suspension of disbelief will be required. Itll promise a burger and deliver a pretzel, you've been warned.
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