I dont need to see anymore Shylamam movies

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2002)

Some plot elements are revealed here.
Do you remember the TV series Dragnet? Everybody in the show had the same taciturn demeanor; the cops, the crooks, victims, witnesses, everybody. Even the kid wacked out on drugs!
Now we have a new Jack Webb. His name is M. Night Shyalaman. Everybody in all his movies have the same muffled monotonous narrow emotional range you would expect to find in a phsycho ward that depends heavily on sedatives to keep the inmates under control. Even someone who is horribly mangled & about to die drones out a few sentences as if reading pages out of an insurance policy.
This is not my only complaint with M. Night. I loved Sixth Sense. The way he presented the movie was fresh & worked very well with the subject. But then he did Unbreakable in exactly the same way. The subdued 'don't show the action' style was totally bogus for what was essentially an action movie subject. When I 1st saw trailers for Signs I suspected he may do the same thing, but it looked good so I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

But again he followed the same formula with the same style & the same drole characters. The 'don't show the action' device goes way too far this time. Instead of generating suspense, it only exasperates & irritates.

In addition to the stylistic shortcomings, this movie has some serious technical flaws. The aliens would have to be so astoundingly stupid for the events in this movie to occur that it would strain the imagination to believe they could even find their way here, let alone create the space ships.
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