Guess what... The ending was a complete surprise

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2002)

I've just returned from a preview of M.Nights 'Signs' and I am baffled. I was totally taken by the Sixth Sense, I appreciated Unbreakable a lot more than I like to admit, but I guess things changed with this movie.
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I will not go into details with story and plot, only so far that i suspected a totally different ending. The plot concentrates on Gibsons character who had to endure the shock of losing his wife. This made him also lose his faith in god, and this means a lot for a preacher.
I suspected that he also lost his mind to a certain degree, and when he discovered the first crop circle, his brain began playing tricks on him. I thought, the hole alien invasion was a hallucination. He subconciously was making it up, so that he could start to believe once more in divine powers. Well... I thought it might have been a cool plot twist to reveal the aliens as psychiatrist or something similar. Unfortunately M. Night decided otherwise.
When the final scene faded without the expected plot twist, I was totally surprised and deeply disappointed. These aliens were so dumb, they could not have been real. The opportunity had been there, but the director had not taken it. Why?
I just cannot imagine someone with M. Night's creative vision not to have seen this possibility to tie all the lose ends of his story together.

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My conclusion of this movie: great photography and directing, but a script with major flaws... 5/10