Definitely One Of The Best Movies Of The Year

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 2002)

Being the sci-fi fan that I am, when they started advertising this movie nine months before it's actual release, I waited with anticipation to see the movie.
Crop circles have fascinated me ever since they first started appearing in the news and educational shows.
To see someone finally make them the subject of a movie intrigued me even more.
I still have yet to figure out why there were a lot of people who didn't like the movie. I don't know, maybe it was a little over their heads or something ?
Looking at the movie from a purely sci-fi point of view, I assume that the people who didn't like the movie thought that the alien invasion had to be one of those types where they come in with guns blazing and blowing up everything in site.
But who's to say that all alien invasions, if any at all, would ever have to happen that way ? Some alien invasions may happen quietly and from behind the scenes, as this movie implies. We would just have to open our eyes to --- "see the signs".
And being the type of person who mixes religion with science (and no, I'm not a Christian Scientist) I enjoyed the duality of the meaning behind the signs throughout the movie.
Also, as in "Independence Day", "Alien Nation", "War Of The Worlds" and "E.T. The Extraterrestrial", we get to see in "Signs" that not all aliens are "super beings". That -- yes --- even with all of their technology, they are still as frail as we are when you take all of that technology away. Even the simplest things can bring down a nation or a species.