OK movie, till the ending

Rating: 3/10 (24 March 2003)

This movie had a good sense of creepiness to it, a good cast, and some great visuals. It was actually turning out to be a good movie until the horrendous ending, which reeks of b-Movie filler. First, this movie successfully builds suspense and fear by offering only glimpses of the creature (which has been done successfully in other movies as well, a typical technique that's used). If you decide to reveal and show your monster in full, steady, prolonged shots you take a big risk of letting the audience down. Signs took the risk and failed. The creature looked very typical of the little green men sci-fi flick mold of monster and appeared to be cartoonish in a way. This robs the the movie of alot of its steam, and that's an understatement. The second thing that just kills this movie is this, if I were trying to invade another planet, I presume I would survey the planet to find out whether or not it's covered mostly by a substance which would be highly lethal to me! The logical fallacy here is huge and thus causes the movie to end on a very sour note.