The Signal -

DR RATING 5/10

The Signal is an interesting one, sometimes I thought it was pure junk sci-fi and then I would think it was genius; it just doesn't quite commit to either one or the other. William Eubank had some big ideas but the majority of is lost plot and confusion. Brenton Thwaites as our lead as Nic who heads out on a road trip with his fellow MIT students and friends Haley (Olivia Cooke) and Jonah (Beau Knapp), they are drawn to a location but a computer genius they encountered on-line while back at MIT. Things change when everything blacks out and Nic awakens unable to walk and confronted by people in hazmat suits. The only face to face interaction is with Damon (Laurence Fishburne). This sci-fi thriller had bags of potential but it fell short with its plot. I can forgive the somewhat sketchy visual effects; I just feel pretty disappointed for a genre that I love.