![]() Upon recovery, we find Nic is confined to a wheelchair in medical center of some kind. The spooky house, the kids with cameras… We’ve seen all this before, right? But from out of nowhere the film throws a left hook that leaves you spinning. Up until this point it seems The Signal is wearing its genre on its sleeve. What they find is a dark and abandoned domicile. ![]() Wanting to have it out with NOMAD in person, Nic and Jonah, much to Hayley’s chagrin, pinpoint where he or she lives. Whilst taking his girlfriend, Hayley (Olivia Cooke), to her college in California, with best friend Jonah (Beau Knapp) in tow, Nic rekindles an online fight with a hacker known as NOMAD. Unfortunately for him, it refuses to remain so. To Nic, who has muscular dystrophy, life is a logical sequence of events with determined outcomes. Seeing a child struggle with the complexities of a claw crane, he takes pity on the sprog by giving him a cheat code, so to speak, that will ensure complete success in winning a toy. When we first meet our hero, Nic (Brenton Thwaites), he is a friend and a lover, but moreover, he’s a critical thinker. ![]() As human beings, do we strive more for logic, or are we happy to be led by our emotions? The Signal, William Eubank’s second stab at directing, poses two common enemies against each in a war older than time itself: the heart over the mind. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness – only to find himself in a waking nightmare. On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius.
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