The Signal (2014)

Very Cool!!!

How sad is this?

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The Eubanks' "The Signal" plays with its audience in ways acceptable and (mostly) unacceptable. It's dressed up in quite a slick way, with some natural beauty, an interesting-ish "who is the mystery hacker?" start-point, some reasonable looking hi-tech and so on; and it also mixes normal film storytelling with "found footage". But it somehow finds time for an entirely irrelevant first mini-scene, and indeed, though it's not exactly lengthy at 93 minutes including credits, a viewer not possessed with the patience of Job is going to find the fast-forward button a VERY tempting option. Truly speaking, there is 15 minutes of content here and no amount of special effects or portentous dialogue can disguise the fact that we're left ENDLESSLY hoping for enlightenment and spectacular plot development that does come a little bit in fact ... but by the time it does we've already given up much or most of any hope with which we may have come to or started the film.Ironically, against that background, we are never fully shown what is going on here, while our characters are forgettable in the extreme. Laurence Fishburne's is the best-known face, but his unwillingness to really help or be nice is EVEN MORE tiresome for the audience than it is for the characters.No spoilers on plot here at all, and somewhere down the line "The Signal" may indeed have an interesting SHORT story to tell. It might conceivably be described as "cult" sci fi - but to be a member of that cult you're going to need have no more-pressing alternative engagements of any kind whatsoever...

I have yet to view this film but fully intend to. I never, never watch or don't watch a film because of a review! Movie enjoyment is a totally subjective experience. Many of my favorite films, especially in the sci-fi category are considered boring, dumb, irrelevant and some of the more highly thought of films I find the same. If it looks interesting enough to consider viewing do it and make up your own mind!

Boring, confusing and just bad! You think there is something there in the beginning of the movie that makes you go through the whole thing only to find out what a piece of crap the whole story is.

This movie was really lame. They used Laurence Fishburne in the exact same type of role as The Matrix to get more views... he even said the same freaking conversations with Neo. Two hackers looking for each other to get an answer. A world that isn't what it seems at the climax. Don't waste your time, I love sci-fi and this was just sub par... and just such a ripoff