Are you Kidding? (Possible spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2004)

Grossly disappointing. I was looking forward to this M. Night film thinking I would get an intelligent treatise on the crop circle phenomenon/Sci-Fi flick. No such luck. What I got was a sophomoric maudlin (very slow) story about a 50'ish minister who becomes angry with God for taking his wife in a car accident. (Now there is a mature spiritual person dealing with loss.) As a minister does this man think that he would be exempt from life's inherent dangers and possible tragedies? Should he react like an emotional child not getting his way? Please, this juvenile silly plot is laughable as drama. As a sci-fi flick it has so many holes it's ridiculous. Aliens averse to water travel to the water planet? They did not have this figured out till they got here? They are strong and fast enough to leap to roof tops yet are incapable of avoiding a guy swinging a baseball bat? A wooden door is an impenetrable barrier for them? Why would they simply not be gunned down by police/military? Or firemen with hoses? The point of the crop circles was navigation? They can travel interstellar space but need crop circles to get around here? Does any of this have a shred of logic? I don't mind suspending believability for a good yarn but this very poorly thought out excuse for a B movie with stars borders on absurd. The Hitchcock imitations are everywhere, and yes after the tenth close up of a water glass we get it, water is significant! Please, this is self indulgent gibberish, not sci-fi, mostly just unbelievable and smarmy drama about one man's sophomoric spiritual crisis with a very weak unresolved ending, the "are you kidding?" kind. M. Night did a masterful job with Sixth Sense, but I can't imagine what he was thinking here and why no one said..Are you kidding?.