but not of intelligence, unfortunately

Rating: 2/10 (19 March 2006)

See a yokel club an alien with a baseball bat! Yee ha! Well up until that point SIGNS was a reasonable Close Encounter with a predator in a wetsuit who could not find its way out of the pantry. See the director give himself a part with Mad Mel (still rolling his eyes and in Richard Gere style then look sideways). The two kids were the best actors in the film. Rory Kulkin still continues to astonish. SIGNS was truly silly...all style and no sense after the lights came up. It looks good, well photographed and good art direction on the farm and the local village. But once you see that alien..... well we now have a drive in movie pretending to be a Spielberg movie. and once that baseball bat was reached for, well, I'm sure all hooted and hollered and dropped popcorn in the cine hyper mega plex because once 'the usual American violence' took over the movie showed no sign of recovery. Especially the scene where the little girl watches the man bash the humanoid alien into submission with the baseball bat, so hard that the bat breaks.