Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Ichimaru_Gin7 This was probably one of the worst movies i have ever seen. Absolytely nonsense. I cannot understand how people are rating this as good in their reviews...They are probably trolling...SPOILERS*****This movie started very good with a nice idea for a story but after Mya left the car and Rod the movie was a complete failure and waste of time. It lost everything with these idiotic, comical scenes at the "party" that destroyed the movie. This movie didn't make any sense. Complete WASTE OF TIME, do not watch it. The movie after the scene that Mya leaves is UNWATCABLE. It was followed by bad acting and stupid scenes with no meaning, even if you had become crazy by the signal. A complete waste of time...

BakuryuuTyranno "The Signal" is quite inventive. The basic premise involves a signal that causes those that heard or saw it becoming quite irrational.They usually resort to killing people although their motivations seem related to whatever they were focused on before being exposed - for example thinking his someone almost whacked his wife and that she might have been cheating on him sees particular women as his wife and sees those near those women as potential attackers and/or assailants.Usually those exposed end up killing. Those kills are sometimes shown outside of chronological order due to flashbacks.There was sometimes black comedy, particularly in the second part (this movie is split into three parts), but unfortunately, it's very long, and by the third part I was finding myself losing interest.

Ted Cunn There's a decent, if not original, idea at the heart of this movie, but the film makers are trying too hard to be arty and clever for it to ever really work.Telling the story in three parts is a terrible idea. It's such a basic story that's being told that it feels more like a way to extend it to feature length than a worthwhile method of story telling. Part 1 is dark and brooding, part 2 is like a comedy and part 3 tries - but fails - to tie the whole thing together.I liked part 1. It had a great atmosphere and such a feeling of dread that's it's the only part of this 'horror' movie that even approached being scary. It's also getting somewhere when it cuts to part 2, which is so tonally different that it's like a different movie. Don't get me wrong, I liked part 2, but it would have been better on it's own rather than lodged haphazardly between the far more similar parts 1 and 3.Part 3 struggled to do something and provide a satisfying conclusion. The trouble was that this movie went from the madness caused by the signal turning people into homicidal maniacs into people who talk at random and don't know what's happening. Add the misplaced cutaways and editing tricks and it just becomes a confusing mess. The end just fizzles out and its unsatisfying, muddled and dull nature just about sums up the movie.Having these three parts as three separate stories would have made for a better experience overall. The main story could have easily been told in Part 1, Part 2 (with a few tweaks) could have stayed the same and then Part 3 could have been a proper finale rather then the delay of something that could have happened an hour beforehand.The best part of this movie can be found much better elsewhere. The acting was all over the place, with some pretty bad examples on show (unfortunately including a character who appears predominantly in all 3 parts)I really did want to like this film, but I just can't do it. A nice effort, but just not a very good result.

craigjpay-146-379244 Had heard good things about this movie before I watched, with comparisons made to Romero's underrated classic 'The Crazies', and while to some degree they are indeed very similar, this movie is a whole different beast and to fresh and original to ever be considered just a re-hash of Romero's film.First thing you should know is that the first couple of minutes are no indication of what's to come, the cheap looking 'Last house on the left' cloned is simply a film within the film, a cheeky red herring before we pull out if the film, into a young couples bedroom, as the film is replaced by the movie's eponymous 'Signal'.From this point on the film is divided into three chapters. The first reveals that one half of the aforementioned couple is in fact married, and as she leaves her lover to go home to her husband the beginnings of the signal's effect on the other members of the public who have seen or heard it become clear. This signal is driving people mad, not just odd behaviour, but homicidal. This starts subtley enough, confused conversations, mild panic, distant cries, but upon reaching her home it becomes apparent that people's behaviour is becoming more and more erratic and dangerous. After a quietly hostile 'interogation' by her husband it becomes clear that her husband is infected, thus begins z desperate escape from her apartment block, with her husband and neighbours all seemingly infected and out to kill anyone they can get their hands on. This is all done in a very authentic, realistic fashion, while being reminiscent of '28 days later' and it's sequel. As the players in this central love triangle collide we are shown events from variou perspectives, the three protagonists story lines interweaving in a very intriguing fashion. The second chapter is very different from the first in terms of atmosphere and purpose, as, while maintaining the same cast as the first chapter, it becomes a jet black comedy, a sort of comedy of errors with an ever escalating supply of corpses, madness and misunderstandings that inevitably result in gruesome violence. I felt that this chapterwas perhaps the strongest of the three, it's gallows humour a terrific juxtaposition to the intensity of the previous part, with each performer showing great comic touches and bizarre characters emerging from the woodwork at the most inopportune moments ( it had to be said that AJ Bowen, playing the husband, is the clear standout in the movie and acquits himself brilliantly in this section).Chapter three takes much the same approach as the first, llurching back into straight, frightening and suspenseful horror as various characters seek each other out to exact revenge or rescue loved ones, culminatingin a wonderfully acted confrontation in a desolate bus station.The most impressive aspect of this movie was it's vivid depiction of madness and the descent into it. Whilst some movies are content to simply show characters as nad by making them rant and behave violently, thus movie takes great pains to try and immerse the viewer in the chaos and confusion, swapping out actors and roles to create a truly believable and authentic take on how it might feel to lose your mind.Overall I was incredibly impressed by the quality if every aspect of 'The Signal', from it's terrific performances, taut direction and original takes on stale genre themes, very, very highly recommended