Directed by:
William EubankCinematography:
David LanzenbergComposer:
Nima FakhraraCast:
Laurence Fishburne, Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Lin Shaye, Sarah Clarke, Beau Knapp, Drew Sykes, Jeffrey GroverPlots(1)
Nic (Thwaites), his girlfriend, Haley (Cooke), and his buddy, Jonah (Knapp), take an unexpected detour from an idyllic cross-country road trip when they are contacted by a mysterious hacker who has gained entry into MIT's secured network. But after a rendezvous in an eerily remote area goes awry, Nic wakes to a living nightmare in an isolation unit. Interrogated by Dr. Wallace Damon (Fishburne), Nic soon realizes that the only way to decipher the past... is to escape the present. (Entertainment One)
(more)Reviews (3)
I like Eubank’s work, I really enjoyed the emotional Love. The Signal is more plot centred and even though it doesn’t hit the bullseye, at least it aims in the right direction. It can be mysterious and slightly unsettling, and brings up interesting questions as any proper mystery film should do. But Eubank sort of lost me after the story leaves the lab, because there were already too many of those “weird things without answers”. Overall, slightly above average and I’m certainly curious about his next movie.
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Maybe if Eubank didn't try so hard to make a small big film and didn't experiment with a handheld camera in the style of The Blair Witch Project or with psychedelic scenes like in Mulholand Drive, this could have been a really good instead of an ambiguous mess with a few interesting moments and a decent finale.
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It is developing excellently, excellent, but then suddenly there is a turning point and it is no longer the same. At times, it is horrifying, at times incredibly action-packed, but when you look at it as a whole, you actually feel like you have watched something meaningless. With this movie, I had the feeling that the last scene should actually be the beginning.
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