Getting beat over the head with "Signs"

Rating: 4/10 (19 August 2002)

SPOILER ALERT If you haven't seen the movie, don't read my review SPOILER ALERT First of all, i think cameos are cool, but why did the director feel the need to have such a big part? For those of you who don't know he was the guy that hit Mel Gisbon's wife. And the scene where they were all eating pizza and going "is that him?" made it too obvious.
Overall the movie was good. It was supsenseful and fun, UNTIL the family went into basement to hide from the aliens. The first time a flashlight got dropped and everyone screamed was scary, then it got really annoying. Especially when it took forever for the director to show that everyone was still in one piece. Yeah, he was leaving it up to the imagination, but it got old quickly!
For me the movie pretty much went downhill from there. When everything wrapped up at the end it was just too calculated. The asthma, the water, the bat, "swing away" it was all too much. I went to see a movie about aliens, not get lectured about having faith and reading the "Signs" in the world around us.
I don't mind happy endings, but like I said this was way too calculated for my taste and ultimately ruined a movie that i thought had lots of potential.