plot worse than Independence Day ... almost ...

Rating: 3/10 (8 October 2002)

The plot / plot-development of "Signs" is .. almost .. worse than that of "Independence Day". ID's story consisted of nothing else than a chain of plot holes. "Signs" is not much better.
Well, I don't go to the movies for realism .. especially not if I watch a Science *Fiction* film .. .. but ..
*** warning - spoilers - if you haven't seen the movie yet...
Aliens who travel lightyears to go to earth to harvest men .. and to whom water is toxic.. walk around naked without any protection on a planet on which water is quite common... and they walk around not only unprotected but unarmed as well.. and they even don't have the technical skill to remove some simple nailed on planks (while being able to build warp speed space ships).. and they need to punch huge signs into fields to mark their landing points (still while being able to have supertechnological space ships .. with sophisticated cloacing devices).. and then use these signs at night.. and apropos cloacing devices: they are invisible to radar and cannot be seen at bright daylight - but why didn't they turn off their lights at night? .. and so on .. and so on.
If the script for "Signs" would have been used in the 1950ies to make a cheap B movie, it would have been o.k. (and certainly funny watching it nowadays), but in the early 21st century? .. such a story? Oh lord have mercy with us poor movie lovers.
Sure, technically, this film was a nice piece of cinematic craftmanship, which I enjoyed. But with such a braindead story - it was nothing than a waste of money and time for me to watch this film.
I gave it a 3 out of 10. No "1" because of quite good acting and it's good cinematography, sound, editing, etc.