The Signs of a bad movie

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 2003)

After all the praise and hype that surrounded this movie I eventually got round to watching it and I seriously wish I hadn't bothered. I have a general idea of what the plot was meant to be, widowed priest losses his faith, aliens invade, he gets it back, but the script just did not come to grips with that plot. The direction of the film was lack-lustre and the story just didn't seem to flow right. Performance? Has Mel Gibson forgotten how to act? And Joaquin Phoenix, what happened to the kind of performance he gave us in Gladiator? Watching this movie I felt as though I was been punished for something, I think that M Night Shyamalan needs to go back school before attempting to direct something else.