25/07/2014

The Signal (2014)


Three friends on a road trip through the South West of the US take a detour in the hope of tracking a
computer hacker, something very sinister happens, everything goes dark, when one of them, Nic (Brendan Thwaites) wakes he realizes he is in some US government experimental pound and being questioned about things not of this earth.

The obvious comparisons are an episode of "The Twilight Zone" and "X-Files" or the bigger budget "The Mist", but this has just as much intelligence and emotion. An absorbing screenplay, at time's beautifully poetic, fine performance's from the young cast (the only 'big name' being Laurence Fishburne) with a suitable ambitious, head scratching dénouement.

*****

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