Could be much better

Rating: 5/10 (16 August 2002)

Of course after watching the first two masterpieces by M Night Shyamalan, I went to the theatres to watch "signs" with very high expectations, and I am really sad to say that my level of disappointment increases as the movie went on.
No doubt that the acting was superb, all the actors did a great job and I was even surprised to see Mr. Shyamalan himself playing a role in the movie.
Yes, now to the disappointing part, that is the plot of this movie. It is true you might say that this movie is not so much about aliens, its about a man who loses faith and finds it again, there are so many plots that could be used to tell a story about how a man would lose his faith and finds his faith again. However, since Mr.Shyamalan had chosen to use the invasion of aliens on to earth as his plot, I think he should develop the plot well enough. I think that he should explain more about the "Signs" and how are they related.
**Spoilers** Subsequently, while watching the movie, I was giving hopes on how Mr.Shyamalan would end this movie as many people think that the invasion of the aliens would bring this world to the end. Sadly, I almost burst out laughing at the part when they just said that the aliens have left our word as we humans have found a way to defeat them and they are afraid of water. This concludes that the aliens were not as smart as we human beings, which is redundant to what the story told us earlier that the aliens were smart as they anticipated humans would use nuclear weapons to defeat them and the world would be no use to them after that. Adding to it, while the aliens were searching for the Hess family in the basement, it also told us that they were smart and they were able to solve any difficulties that they confront. At that point I thought the story was getting interesting as the pace of the movie was picking up while suddenly it ended up that the aliens just "left" the planet! Do enlighten us something more about the signs, the aliens.. some new ideas that we don't know!!
However, I think the acting alone made this movie worth watching, Mel Gibson along with Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin did play their character very well. The managed to capture the emotions of the audience and it was well done! On top of that, I did enjoyed the part about the reason Mel Gibson quit being a priest and the idea that does coincidence really exist.
In summary, the movie was okay .. the movie actually does have a bit of scary and frightening moments, it's just that the plot about the invasion of aliens should be improved further! (5/10)