Silent Warnings

I wasn't sure what to expect from Silent Warnings. After seeing it, I found it not a great movie but it was an okay one. It actually looks good, the photography is not choppy and the scenery has a certain eeriness. The first fifty minutes or so were decent, not great due to how derivative it was, but there are admirable attempts at evoking suspense and tension and there are some creepy moments and it didn't make the mistake of boring me. The acting is also better than average, though Stephen Baldwin in a rather "bit" role is rather over-the-top. Billy Zane is also in a small role but does a good job with it. AJ Buckley is the one who carries Silent Warnings and he does very well with it being charismatic and likable. However, it is the ending really where everything just fizzles out, the explanations are just nonsensical and it all feels melodramatic. The script is uneven, thankfully it is not that cheesy and stilted like I was expecting and builds up the characters(who thankfully didn't infuriate me) nicely. Sadly it does change tone and that shift feels like a completely different and inferior work and it just didn't work. But the worst asset of Silent Warnings was by far the special effects, which are terribly fake. All in all, has terrible effects and an uneven script but until it fizzles out at the end Silent Warnings was reasonably good. 5/10 Bethany Cox

I feel that the other comments made about this movie do not exactly do it justice. I just rented and watched a copy of it last night, and I feel a little more generous than some of the other posters. Firstly, one has to address the fact that this movie is highly derivative of "Signs". Basicaly, the premise is the same. Crop circles mysteriously appear in a farmer's field and trouble ensues.

The acting is about what you would expect. Baldwin is far too over the top to really appreciate, but Billy Zane does a great job, as do most of the actors that portray the college kids trying to fix up the old farm house.

The CGI aliens are not done very well and look really fake. The build up of tension throughout the movie, however, is well done. There are some scenes where I couldn't help but jump and, in general, I think that this movie actually did a better job of interpreting the possible uses of crop circles better than signs. In this movie, the circles are used as a type of portal system for the aliens to get from place to place. In terms of a further comparison with signs, the ending is a lot more bleak.

I felt that signs included a cheesy supernatural element that, thankfully, was mostly absent from this film. Don't rent it expecting to see something on the same scale of Signs, but if you liked it and the ideas it presented, you should get some enjoyment out of this as well.

Went to my local video store. My wife show mew this film silent warning. The

description in the back looks promising and there are some praise like , will keep you to the edge of your seat and stuff like that that are made by some film critics.

all right ....film rental cost me $1.15 with taxes. The film started with Baldwin that seems to be turning nuts and die while trying to kill something in his corn field. A prelude to what looked like a promising little suspense and spooky film. But

things fell down from that point on.....I did not saw the movie signs but i thought to myself that it must be looking very similar.....Anyhow......Baldwin cousin inherits its house and he decide to go there with his girlfriend and 3 of his friends to put back the house into shape ....during the week they spend

there..They will hear noise , see circle appearing in the corn field, see strange creature shadow and then 2 of them would get kill by the aliens....althought the script was probably very good and so the book if there is one, This movie failed to provide viewer with a good plot and building suspense and scares.

Of course, it was obvious that it was a rip-off of Signs, but I didn't quite know what to make of Signs, so I thought this might provide a more wholesome movie experience. It started out well. After the main character's cousin mysteriously dies in a car crash, this guy and five college friends of his go to the cousin's house in a corn field near a small rural village. It's a good set-up, and there is a very nice and natural dynamic between all the characters, leading one to think that there might actually be a good story in here somewhere.

Unfortunately, there isn't. The interesting character interactions, which you want to see developed, get cut short by some silly nonsense about anonymous grey aliens. The end is a meaningless fizzle, where you can't tell if the alien invasion is retreating or advancing.

The movie starts out having a point, but ends up having none. 4 out of 10.

Is Billy Zane so hard-up for work that he has to spend his time shooting aliens in this stupid mess of a film? Likewise Stephen Baldwin. . .at least his entire role consists of him alone, and was likely shot in one day. Yet another teens-in-trouble movie with the requisite quasi-sex. Why did sci-fi waste my time with this f'ing waste of film stock?