This Movie was a BUNCH of JUNK - Plot Holes; Silly; and Dumb.

Rating: 1/10 (23 August 2002)

Shyamalan first of all offered us those phony lying trailers in the theaters that pretended this was a scary alien movie. It was NOT. It was a corny "spiritual journey" by some dopey reverend in a farm. The movie was not scary, either.
The movie itself was manipulative and the direction was ripped off from various other films from "Blair Witch Project" to "Night of the Living Dead".
The movie made no sense, besides being pretentious baloney designed to appeal to the gullible.
**SPOILERS BELOW**
Why would aliens invade a planet which is mostly water when water kills them??
Why would the vet (played by M. Night) be running around loose after killing a woman with his car? He also now has an SUV. He didn't even get sued, and still has a license?
How DUMB was the reverend and his brother not to grab some weapon on a farm when the aliens invaded his house?? They really needed some mystical "last words" from his dead wife to remind them to pick up a weapon?
The aliens can master inter-stellar travel, force fields, and anti-gravity ships, but they need carvings in cornfields to navigate and can't figure out how to break down a door??
The reverend and his stupid brother when nailing up the doors boarded up the wrong side making it useless!!
So much more. The movie is filled with plot holes and illogical nonsense. Just read the comments on the IMDB message board for this film.
It really was pretentious junk.