unbearable boredom - cheapo movie

Rating: Null/10 (11 August 2002)

"Signs" or "How to make a sci-fi movie with an Old house, a farm and a man in a rubber suit".
I was conned into watching this movie after seeing the slick trailer, bursting with suspense and excitement about aliens, crop circles and Mel Gibson.

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What a waste of time...2 hours seemed like 20. The movie meanders around boring stuff, a priests (Mel Gibson) doubts with his Christian faith after his wifes untimely death in an accident. Aliens producing crop circles right in his backyard is a secondary issue here. We are shown tantalizing but hazy TV clips about aliens appearing all over the world and taking over it....and then......nothing. Ha! Just a load of sentimental bull about our priest coping with his religious beliefs.
With major events of world takeover by aliens happening, there are absolutely no explanations about who these aliens are, their spaceships, why and how they make crop circles, why they mysteriously left.....absolutely nothing. Mr. Night Shyamalan makes a brief appearance as a particularly unimpressive and unnecessary character further spoiling the story.

There is an ultra lame ending to the movie, where an "alien" is finally shown - a guy dressed up in a cheapo rubber suit - and what happens to him is unimaginably lame and stupid.
Night Shymalans career is steadily going downstream, with lukewarm success of "Unbreakable" and now this flop "Signs". Science fiction is not a suitable area with B movie budgets and cheapo sets. You cant work around or compensate for it by inserting religious themes.
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