Don not THINK about it. FEEL it and you'll understand...

Rating: Null/10 (20 October 2002)

Perhaps Signs is not as good as The Sixth Sense, but definitively it's a great film. I think Shyamalan is a dare-filmmaker who has the ability to re-invent what a thriller should be. That's why this is a movie which can't be categorized.
Spoilers.
Has it got a few plot holes? Of course it has. If we try to compare it to some others ET motion pictures. But from the bottom that's not the issue.
In order this movie works, the audience doesn't have to worry about logical things because something else is happening under their noses. Obviously Shyamalan is smart enough to understand the thing that an alien specie which neither can't break wooden doors nor drink a simple glass of water, but is capable of build spaceships, it's beyond absurdity.
So is he stupid? There must be a reason. If this is a nonsense, why did I shiver watching a fictional breaking news report showing an also fictional Brazilian home-made video tape? Because it doesn't matter WHAT it's outside our homes. Only matters the fact of not knowing if our own lives are in danger. I've read some comments complaining of this apparently lack of logic, assuming bad portraits of alien technology or behavior. I think these persons need to think twice, for no spaceship is shown, no extraterrestrial culture is developed. They can't assume things as wrong just because they don't fit to Independence Day's codes. I know Superman is an alien, but I don't complain the fact he has one head instead of two. We simply don't know what sort of creatures they are, so we can't figure out anything. All exists in our imagination. We build it thanks to sounds and blinks.
And this is brilliant, because anything could happen. Anything. It's better if something is suggested, because it all depends of people's imagination.
Besides this film has no other intention but to tell the classic story of the man who looses himself and re encounter himself in a context of a supposed extraterrestrial invasion. It might have been presented as a world war flick, and the core of the story would have remained the same. Not Shyamalan best work, but an extraordinary picture without any doubts.