It could have been a very good movie

Rating: 4/10 (7 October 2006)

I watched The Sixth Sense and also Unbreakable. I cannot believe the same director wrote and made Signs. The Sixth Sense was a masterpiece VERY NEAT, and I really loved Unbreakable but in comparison Signs is crap.
I am really sad saying this but I have to admit it. The movie had potential but unfortunately it has a ton of plot holes. Why I cannot believe M. Night Shyamalan made this movie? Because the other two mentioned are extremely well done.
I enjoyed the first 30 min. of the movie, then everything turned predictable, boring, nonsense. I liked the suspense moments and I think the movie is saved by the actors who played the family. I know it was not the best thing Mel Gibson did but it was OK, and I really liked the children. The problem in this movie is not the actors, but the plot holes.
How can I child kill a furious dog and do not get injured one bit? How can that happen in total silence without screams? The father and the uncle did not hear anything? How can aliens come to a planet where the main element everywhere is the very thing that destroy them? How can a baby monitor receive signals from the aliens but the military radars are unable to do that? How can a family has a little girl suffering a mental disorder about water for years and take it as a normal thing without a treatment?
OK... OK... I saw comments saying that this is not a sci-fi movie but a movie about faith. Anyway, a plot cannot have all those holes! I have tried to think of this movie in a metaphor way. I think that was the director's intention, but even in that case there is a non-sense thing everywhere, because in that case the movie should not be realistic in some scenes but it is.
I give 4 stars to this movie, but it is only because I loved the actors performance, not all the actors, just the family... And talking about actors why the hell M. Night Shyamalan appears in his movies as an actor??? Come on! To be an actor is not for everyone! As an actor he is utterly pathetic, but well, he may think he is Martin Scorsese.