A new classic from a new master

Rating: 10/10 (4 August 2002)

Reading the negative comments on this movie confirm what I'd long believed: most people need to be spoon-fed their entertainment. It has to be black-and-white, spelled out right in front of them, or they just don't get it.
"Signs" is not a movie that spells it out for you. You have to use that most neglected of all human organs: The brain.
But if you do divert a little energy to your gray matter, you are in for a fantastic emotional journey that's as engrossing and masterful as they come. Shyamalan deserves to be mentioned in the same sentences as Spielberg, Hitchcock, and Kubrick.
I was enchanted, I was challenged, I was enlightened. I literally laughed, cried, and nearly wet my pants with fear.
If you're looking for Independence Day, the X-Files, or War of the Worlds, (which many people clearly are) look somewhere else. This is not that type of film! But it *is* the most engaging, thoughtful, and purely frightening alien-genre movie since Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
5 out of 5. 10 out of 10. Go see it. Bring your brain, and pay attention.