Three students venture into the Nevada desert in search of a notorious hacker, and discover they have been drawn into a plot with major repercussions.
Intrigued by reports that a mysterious hacker named Nomad has breached MIT's advanced security system and exposed its flaws, freshmen Nic and Jonah hop in the car with Nick's girlfriend Hailey, and attempt to track down the elusive computer genius.
Eventually, the trail of clues leads the three students into the Nevada desert. They finally come face-to-face with Nomad just before everything goes black.
Later, regaining consciousness in a high-security government facility, a confused Nic quickly finds that the worst is yet to come......
The past few months have an absolute treat for people who like absolutely bonkers, mend- bending Science Fiction.
We had Predestination, then Coherence, and now this, a mix of Chronicle, V for Vendetta, and even a little Solaris.
But unlike the other two films, the final third does kind of ruin the brilliant set up, as it just goes a little too bonkers for its own good.
My perception of the film is that it's all about the power of the computer, and how many just take them for granted. After all, they are part of our everyday life, and most households have one, but only a select few go deeper, much deeper beyond the screen, and the two main protagonists are these sort of people, and the titular signal is one that they yearn for.
But what, or who, is The Signal. After the initial discovery of the house, it's as if the film makers have purposely gone back in time to the eighties, a time where home computers, Wi-Fi, and Internet were mostly ideas and for business use, so for Nic and Joseph, this could be alien for them, as suggested, Nic gets pretty vexed about a clock.
But why was Nomad contacting them? Was it because of their intellect, their ability to go deeper into the proverbial Matrix, so he had better subjects to probe?
It's definitely a watch more than once movie, sounds from other movies are clearly evident, and like The Sixth Sense, things make more 'sense' on repeat viewings.
Sadly, the ending doesn't support the remarkable build up, and despite the admittedly neat twist ending, it's just too over the top for its own good.
Fishburne hasn't been this good for a long long time, and he really elevates the movie into something whenever his calm Damon is on screen.
Well worth viewing, but flawed.....
Intrigued by reports that a mysterious hacker named Nomad has breached MIT's advanced security system and exposed its flaws, freshmen Nic and Jonah hop in the car with Nick's girlfriend Hailey, and attempt to track down the elusive computer genius.
Eventually, the trail of clues leads the three students into the Nevada desert. They finally come face-to-face with Nomad just before everything goes black.
Later, regaining consciousness in a high-security government facility, a confused Nic quickly finds that the worst is yet to come......
The past few months have an absolute treat for people who like absolutely bonkers, mend- bending Science Fiction.
We had Predestination, then Coherence, and now this, a mix of Chronicle, V for Vendetta, and even a little Solaris.
But unlike the other two films, the final third does kind of ruin the brilliant set up, as it just goes a little too bonkers for its own good.
My perception of the film is that it's all about the power of the computer, and how many just take them for granted. After all, they are part of our everyday life, and most households have one, but only a select few go deeper, much deeper beyond the screen, and the two main protagonists are these sort of people, and the titular signal is one that they yearn for.
But what, or who, is The Signal. After the initial discovery of the house, it's as if the film makers have purposely gone back in time to the eighties, a time where home computers, Wi-Fi, and Internet were mostly ideas and for business use, so for Nic and Joseph, this could be alien for them, as suggested, Nic gets pretty vexed about a clock.
But why was Nomad contacting them? Was it because of their intellect, their ability to go deeper into the proverbial Matrix, so he had better subjects to probe?
It's definitely a watch more than once movie, sounds from other movies are clearly evident, and like The Sixth Sense, things make more 'sense' on repeat viewings.
Sadly, the ending doesn't support the remarkable build up, and despite the admittedly neat twist ending, it's just too over the top for its own good.
Fishburne hasn't been this good for a long long time, and he really elevates the movie into something whenever his calm Damon is on screen.
Well worth viewing, but flawed.....