A Few thoughts

Rating: 8/10 (7 January 2005)

As I sat watching signs, I couldn't help but think of Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the third kind" If you were to sit through this movie, not knowing what to expect, you'd find Signs, at first glance, to basically be the same film, just with evil aliens, instead of good ones. To wit: In both movies, they find mysterious .. well... signs. IN CEot3K, its tones. In signs, crop circles.
Both movies point to the discovered elements as "navigation systems" (The tones in CE3K turn out to be latitudes and longitudes, in Signs, a system that points to major cities) The basement sequence in Signs has the same feel as the kidnapping sequence in CEot3K Both have a sequence in India in which the locals discover the signals.
I was thinking these were similar movies, about making contact with aliens. One film they are good, in this one evil.
Until the end of Signs threw a curveball at me. Let's just say that in Signs, the title Isn't referring to the crop circles. It was a very clever (IMHO) ending. This movie is a must see!