could have been good but crashed in the end

Rating: 4/10 (23 January 2003)

*possible minor spoilers*
this movie starts out ok... builds up tension until it´s halfway done... and then it crashes and burns later. the alien crop signs are nothing but bull to bring alien movie geeks into the movie theather, the use and treatment of these signs is simplistic at best, no real meaning is attached to them. in the end it switches to other signs completely
the movie is full of cliches altho it does have some good moments, the end result of it all tho is to produce a film that doesn´t make you think about things, it just sort of tries to rudely and forcefully stick ideas into your head about everything being predestined, this director can´t seem to leave things a bit up in the air, he has to make everything extremely apparent for all the dumb moviegoers who can´t figure out the idea behind the title, same thing happened at the end of unbreakable and 6th sense, only these movies were a lot better!!! and he´s not going to get it because of all the good comments this movie got.
the fact that aliens can´t even open doors is stupid, the aliens themselves look brutal and dumb, and they´re naked!!! not the kind of thing you´d expect to be capable of space travel and again... how can they be alergic to water??? at least war of the worlds came up with a better idea!!!
this thing just tried to put too many things into one turning from a possible ET good alien scenario into a sort of close encounters of the 3rd kind undecided scenario and then into an independance day movie only now the aliens are pansies who can´t break down a door and run around naked with nothing but poisonous spines to enslave the local population, ludicrous!! I guess it was all about addressing xenophobia and religion and destiny and so on and so fort..... ugh
I always wanted to see a movie like this about ppl who are nothing in the great sceme of things during an alien invasion or the group of ensigns in star trek who always seem to get killed. now that I´ve seen it I never want to see it again, at least I can thank shymalan for showing us how bad these movies can be.
oh and don´t forget the crop signs have absolutely no significant role in giving the movie it´s name.
All this said, the movie had the potential to be very good, it does keep you on the edge of your seat for about 3/4s of the movie and delivers a couple of good scares, the ending is what really spoils this film, it just takes the worst possible story tangent and flops into cliche and moral.