Worst Movie of 2002

Rating: 1/10 (10 January 2003)

This movie was so boring and had so many holes in the plot it was painful to watch. The aliens spent decades scouting and never realize that 75% of the planet is poison to them. If they had realized this, why did they not protect themselves from water? Not even a rain coat? Don't they know it rains on this planet? What if they attack someone who just got out of the shower? Or trip and fall into a swimming pool at night? And yet they run through fields of corn at night, somehow avoiding the dew. Have you ever been in a field at night? Obviously M. Night hasn't. Otherwise the aliens would have ran screaming back to their spaceships, looking for their first aid kits.
And after they showed Gibson's wife dying, some guy in the audience said "I bet his brother hits a home run on an aliens head!". That was just too obvious, and yet this was supposed to be part of what gave Gibson his faith back.(And yes, we were at the very first screening of the film in our city)

I know the aliens were just a plot device to enable Gibson to regain his faith, but M. Night just got lazy on this story. That or he's just out of ideas. I thought "Sixth Sense" was pretty good in spite of some plot holes. "Unbreakable" was good but too long. Maybe he should try to do a movie without a gimmick ending.