What signs?

Rating: 5/10 (21 August 2002)

SPOILER!! They may as well call this movie "Father Graham Hess' discovery of inner self". Shyamalan must have missed the point of the script. The story about alien invasion was almost like a side plot.
It didn't fit in with the "main" idea of the priest losing his wife and his faith in God along the way. Subtract the "signs" and the aliens from the plot and you almost get a good drama.
Mel's and Joaquin's acting was superb though. The film had its moments and some potential but Shyamalan lost it 30 minutes into the movie. All the negatives aside I did enjoy the last scene where Merrill gets to kill the alien by spraying it water.
Ah, on the point... Why would creatures from other planet with super technologies to travel great distances and make themselves invisible, run around "naked" when their skin is sensitive to the most abundant material on the planet they came to invade?? And what's the deal with them unable to break through pantry doors? Doesn't sound like super race to me.
Aliens were certainly underdeveloped by the script writers. Discounting the phone ringing and the door banging, the sound effects were absent from the movie full stop.
Very disappointing film.