Shayamalan repeats himself, and a worn out crowd pleasing formula in an expertly made bad film

Rating: 4/10 (16 August 2002)

M. Night Shayamalan has now made the same movie three times in a row.
It is basically use naturalistic film making techniques to walk the line between natural and supernatural until you spring the supernatural at the end. All his movies are excellent propaganda for religion, and little more.
They are well made, but ultimately empty exercises we have already been dragged through countless times.
Signs contains an annoying, offensive stereotype of an atheist in a foxhole that has been pounded to death in American culture. We didn't need Shayamalan to make yet another expertly crafted incarnation of this hackneyed formula.
I give it 5/10