Absolutely Fantastic

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

***SPOILERS*** Decent and straightforward clone of the previous years,2002, Mel Gibson movie "Signs" without the heavy religious overtones of the original.We see right away that things aren't going too good at the old Vossimer farm. Crazy Joe Vossimer, Stephen Bladwin, has been under attack by these unseen, by everyone but Joe, aliens from other space that made his 40 acer cornfield their home. Even though Joe had somehow found how to battle the aliens it seems that it was still too late for the rest of humanity, as well as Crazy Joe, in that he drunkenly got himself killed by his own hand as he was partying, all by himself, the night away.It was now up to crazy Joe's close relative the just graduated electronic major Layne, A.J Buckley, and his fellow graduating student friends to be the one's to save the world together with the help of the town sheriff Bill Willingham, Billy Zane. It's not that Layne & Co. were out to save the world all they wanted to do was have a good time refurbishing the Old Vossimer home & Farm and have put it, by Layne, on sale. It was that's how things just turned out in that they were designated by fate, or a power beyond their control, to battle an alien invasion of the earth that they accidentally came upon.Not expecting to find what they eventually did the young people were just having a good time doing their thing, besides cleaning up the place, in the wilds of rural Oregon until things started to get a bit weird! Like these strange crop circles popping up all over the cornfield like weeds in your backyard. At first thinking that the crop circles were the work of a few local sh*t kicking farmhands it soon became obvious, in them being both overly drunk and utterly brainless, that it was the work of some higher form of intelligence possibly from another planet.It was Layne who at first suspected something wasn't kosher when he found in the attic a number of video tapes made by Crazy Joe explaining his paranoia of aliens from outer space. It's later when one of Layne's friends Maurice, Ransford Doherty, while peeping through the keyhole of sexy Iris Doyle's, Kim Onasch, room as she was undressing that he saw, besides Iris undressed, a alien shape in her window! Blowing his cover Maurice ended up barreling into Iris' room exposing himself as a peeping Tom, or Maurice, but at the same time alerting his fellow students and friends that there are aliens out there and their up to no good.It still took a while for Layne and his friends to finally get the picture that they and the earth was under attack, from aliens from outer space, but when they did it was almost too late in that the aliens had already gotten the upper hand as well as done in a number of them. It's when Sheriff Willingham, who finally got off his a**, came on the scene that the battle for the Vossimer Farm took a sudden and dramatic turn for the better. ****SPOILERS**** It became obvious, from what Crazy Joe left behind on the farm, that the aliens were somehow unable to fend off anything made of pure iron as well as it being electrified by connected to an electric current. It's that secret that Sheriff Willingham found out, through Crazy Joe's video's and writings, that in the end turned the tide against the invisible and materializing, from out of thin air, aliens.Making the ultimate sacrifice in preventing the aliens from taking over the Vossimer Farm as well as zapping Layne and his friends, or what was left of them, Sheriff Willingham stopped them dead, or hot, in their tracks. It was just too bad that the rest of the world, or the United State's West Coast, didn't have other men of sheriff Willingham's insight courage conviction and determination as well. As we soon find out in the movie's shocking and disturbing final moments.

One reason horror movies aren't well regarded amongst critics is down to the fact that in order for the plot to work the characters have to do stupid things like wander around a dark woodland knowing fine well that people have disappeared in that location . In other words logic flies out the window . One other reason for the low regard of this genre is that plots have been done to death and the horror film has lost its lustre down to really rank repetition . SILENT WARNINGS is a case in point As soon as the characters are introduced I let out a very audible sigh . We're introduced to the staple diet of American horror movies - horny teenagers . This a diet that's been dished out to audiences for over 30 years and anyone who once had an appetite for this type of movie must now surely be suffering from a cinematic eating disorder . However at least the story does have some originality in that it doesn't rip off HALLOWEEN . Instead it rips off a couple of other horror/sci-fi classics . Can you guess what they are ? I'll give you a clue . One of them also featured crop circles in a cornfield and starred Mel Gibson while the other is a 1967 Hammer horror movie based on a 1957 BBC play by Nigel Kneale . Even the the title of conjures up images of the Gibson movie and I guess that's why this movie isn't called WARNING SIGNS I will be somewhat merciful in this review and take into account that this is a very cheap direct to DVD film shot in Bulgaria . At least the director has picked a location that resembles the American Mid West . Strange to think that both Stephen Baldwin and Billy Zane were once relatively well known prolific actors but I can't recall the last time either appeared in a fairly successful movie and I doubt if SILENT WARNINGS made any casting directors sit up and take notice . The rest of the cast are alright in rather clichéd roles and if you're in to horror or SF movies then you may find this movie a harmless enough time waster

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.

Silent Warnings is very similar like Signs but it does a good job from keeping itself looking like a rip off like other people say but that's just My opinion. Billy Zane was good in the film and Stephen Baldwin was very good in a very different role. The music is good by Richard McHugh. The aliens in My opinion didn't look as realistic as they could have but they did look cool. In My opinion its not the best alien movie but its certainly not worst and well worth to rent! If you like Aliens, Zane and Baldwin then watch Silent Warnings!Movie Nuttball's NOTE:If you like alien movies and/or the subject of aliens I also recommend the following films: The Thing from another World, The War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The UFO Incident, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, John Carpenter's The Thing, Krull, Time Walker, My Science Project, Howard the Duck, John Carpenter's Starman, Mac and Me, Explorers, Invaders from Mars, Total Recall, The Abyss, Communion, Fire in the Sky, Independence Day, The Arrival, Mars Attacks! Men in Black I & 2, Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, Xtro 3: Watch the Skies, Battlefield Earth: A Saga for the year 3000, Impostor, Stargate, The Puppet Masters, John Carpenter's Village of the Damned, Life Form, The X-Files: Fight the Future, Mission to Mars, Signs, Alien Hunter, Spaceballs, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Predator, Predator 2, The entire Star Wars saga (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of the Jedi (Original and Special Editions!), The Phantom Menace, & Attack of the Clones), the entire Star Trek movie saga (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Final Frontier, The Undiscovered Country, Generations, First Contact, Insurrection, & Nemesis) and Stephen King's IT!