Expectations fall short

Rating: 1/10 (5 August 2002)

Signs is a unique film and characteristic of M. Night Shymalan's usual style of filmmaking. But it is not by any means a great film. It can't even be described as entertaining. Sixth Sense was a scary and thought-provoking movie that kept me up many nights. Signs is trying to be a suspenseful film with some substance.(Substance as in the lost faith of the reverend.) But the substance was ridiculous and the suspense was unrewarding. Is this film supposed to be a drama about a man who doubts the existence of a caring God, or is this a film about the invasion of aliens? Either way, Signs falls short. The scene when Mel Gibson tells Joaquin Phoenix about the two kinds of people in the world was perhaps the most superficial and idiotic scene in film history. Save your dollars, go see runteldat, a hilarious film that IS what it's supposed to be.