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

Silent Warnings starts at 'Brightwood College' where Layne Vossimer (A.J. Buckley) meets with with his girlfriend Macy (Callie De Fabry) & their friends Stephen (David O'Donell) his girlfriend Katrina (Michelle Borth) along with Maurice (Randford Doherty) & Iris (Kim Onasch) who are all going to drive out to the farm Layne has inherited after his cousin Joe (Stephen Baldwin) was killed in an accident. They intend to 'do' the place up & Layne plans to sell it off, simple eh? Well not really because the six friends hadn't counted on the alien beings who are using crop circles in the corns fields surrounding the farm as a means of teleportation...Co-written & directed by Christian McIntire while I didn't think Silent Warnings was brilliant or even approaching it I thought it was an OK watch. The script by McIntire & Bill Lundy is all build up & scene setting for the first hour & then it changes direction completely & turns into an all out alien invasion film which is a shift in direction that felt like it came out of nowhere. The first hour tries to keep you in the dark a much as possible as nothing for definite is revealed but the presence of alien life-forms is obviously hinted at, it has a go at trying to explain the significance of the strange phenomena of crop circles which it does reasonably enough but when all said & done you just can't help but feel that Silent Warnings is a cheap Signs (2002) rip-off & considering the two were made & released so close together it's hard to put up a defence against it. There are just so many similarities for it to be a coincidence, however I suppose the good new is if you liked Signs & are after something very similar then Silent Warnings is definitely the film for you. It moves along at a reasonable pace although the first hour mainly relies on suggestion & careful build up, the character's are OK & not as annoying as many all teen cast films, the dialogue is alright & I actually found it quite watchable for what it was but then again why should you listen to me?Director McIntire does OK, this looks like a proper film & not the usual low grade stuff that goes straight-to-video & because of the cast that makes me believe this was maybe intended for a theatrical release. There are one or two half decent 'jump' scare moments although in the end they're cheap scares, there's a certain mysterious feel to the film during the first hour & it has it's moments. Now the bad news, the alien CGI computer effects are absolutely terrible, no question they are awful & the aliens inspire fits of laughter rather than screams. Oh well, nothings perfect I suppose.Techncially the films pretty good terrible CGI effects apart, it's well made throughout with decent enough production values. Apparently Silent Warnings was shot in Sofia in Bulgaria. The acting was alright & Billy Zane is still paying the price for appearing in The Phantom (1996) as all he can get is acting jobs in films like this shot in Bulgaria.Silent Warnings isn't the best film ever but I found it a harmless enough way to pass 80 odd minutes, you could do a lot better for sure but you could do a lot worse as well.

If I hadn't seen SIGNS i might have been impressed by the whole cornfield/alien angle. But its been done before and I was hoping this film would take a whole new angle. It doesn't. Billy Zane looks like he's on drugs. Some time is spent revealing who the characters are and how they relate to each other, there's an obligatory semi nude scene but its pointless - all the characters are shallow and uninteresting IMHO. Considering the technology these aliens must have there are holes in the plot large enough to drive a monster truck through. NEVER have I seen such woefully depicted monsters/aliens. I know this thing was made on a budget but if they couldn't use CGI properly then stick to rubber suits. Forget the comparisons to SIGNS - this one STINKS!

I was recently at the local video store and saw Silent Warnings on the shelf. I figured how bad can it really be? I rented it, took it home and the second everyone saw what I had rented they were scrutinizing it. I ignored thinking that a movie about aliens and crop circles really can't be completely disappointing. I popped it in the DVD player and proceeded to watch the film.At first glance, it looks just like Signs. A farm, crop circles and the appearance of aliens in only slight amounts at first, but more prominent nearer the end.Basically, a young man inherits his crazy cousin's farm after his death and goes there with some friends to fix the place up and sell it. After only being there for a few days they start noticing crop circles, someone disappears and they realize that, for some reason, aliens are attacking them on the farm. They do whatever they can to stay alive and figure out how to get rid of the aliens.Silent Warnings feels like a made-for-TV budgeted film, but somehow worse. None of the main characters had any acting ability, unless you count Billy Zane as a main character, but he doesn't really have many lines so I wouldn't label him as one.Now I guess I should be fair in respect to the acting and small budget effects. These are always expected with the typical straight-to-video, "never-heard-of-it" movies. But...Silent Warnings left one small thing out of the plot. An ending. I've never been so disappointed by the end of a movie in my life. Signs was bad, Jeepers Creepers was bad...This was awful.All in all, I knew it wouldn't be good, but I had no idea.Overall Rating: 2 / 10