Boring Homage to Old Invasion Movies

Rating: 3/10 (13 December 2005)

I was about the last one in the country to go to see "Signs" so I guess that's why the only other people in the audience kept talking through it.
The first two-thirds is a cinematographically lovely homage, practically frame by frame and certainly scene by scene, to Hitchcock's "The Birds," in making the quotidian scary. Though instead of one hunk, we get two in Mel Gibson and Jacquin Phoenix, and no statuesque blonde.
The last third steals mightily from every 1950's alien invasion sci fi movie, and some of those are classic favorites of mine. Maybe Shyamalan figures no one watches black and white movies anymore or maybe it's just more homage.
Either way, I was bored.
(originally written 9/29/2002)