(SPOILER)(SPOILER)He's Dreaming(SPOILER)(SPOILER)

Rating: 10/10 (31 August 2002)

Signs is not "Sci-fi" as most reviewers want to pigeonhole it. M night Shyamalan is resurrecting a long dead genre the Hitchcock psychological thriller. Give them what they think they want without giving them a thing. His use of: Sounds, Music, and Clues, are second only to hitchcock. Shyamalan can easily be labeled a mediocre sci-fi writer/director, but this movie is not a sci-fi movie. He only led us to believe it was a poor sci-fi film. (SPOILER)"Father" Gramm is introduced walking out of the bathroom and we see a cross shaped dust shadow on the wall. After all of the alien gobbledy goo we see Gramm leave the same bathroom now the cross is on the wall. The time line is ASSUMED to be several months when in reality it was only over night. Gramm had a horrifying dream about how humanity is threatened by aliens, which leads to his new found faith. Shyamalan gave us so many clues beginning with Bo's opening line, "Uncle Mike are you in my dream also?" Everyone is clarivoyant. The crop circles are maps. They "care" about rural Pennsylvania. The drugstore clerk's confession to a protastant priest. The aliens look like every crude drawing we've seen in the National Enquirer. Basically every "plot hole" you've seen listed was a clue it was a dream in Gramm's head. Shyamalan is a genius to have fooled almost every reviewer to date into believing this movie is a poor excuse for a sci-fi movie, when in reality it was a hitchcockian (if that is a word)psychological thriller. Definately 10 out of 10!!!!!!