A haunting alien invasion story

Rating: 7/10 (21 January 2017)

M. Night Shyamalan takes on aliens in his third big picture. Reverend Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) wakes up to find his crops bent into a strange pattern and his dogs acting overly aggressive. His two children Morgan (Rory Culkin) and Bo (Abigail Breslin) are forced to kill one of the dogs that tries to attack them. Graham also lives with his brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix) who used to be a baseball star but had issues striking out too much and gave up the career.
The mysterious signs increased steadily in another slow burn. The Hess family keeps seeing and hearing disturbing figures moving around their crops but can never seem to catch them. Meanwhile, other residents report strange sightings and Officer Paski (Cherry Jones) notices odd behavior from visitors. Eventually, the news coverage shows that aliens have arrived in spaceships that hover over Mexico City, then other major cities across the world.
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