How much suspension of disbelief can you handle? This movie sucks.

Rating: 1/10 (18 October 2004)

I remember seeing the trailer for "Signs" and thought, "that looks like a totally stupid movie." Months later I saw it and, whaddya know, I was dead on. It's bad enough that it includes as a fundamental story element CROP CIRCLES, the quintessential hoax in which people to this day still choose to believe (despite the original hoaxers' "coming out" years ago). The formulaic threads are nearly sickening. The religious man who, thanks to some tragedy, turns his back on god, but by the end of the movie realizes the "truth" of his restored faith, tying a pretty bow around the tidy happy ending. Basically this movie seems to have been written backwards. It's like M. Night Shamalamadingdong wrote the scene at the end where all these disparate and unexplained pieces come together and make "sense," then threw in a bunch of filler to achieve a feature-length duration.
SPOILER:
And what the heck is up with the water thing? If you were an alien who was like deathly allergic to water, why the bloody blazes would you come to Earth in the first place, and then park your UFO in the middle of a freaking dew-covered corn field?