I thought M Night was suppose to be a good film maker...

Rating: 5/10 (11 January 2003)

I was dragged to this film over the summer and I have regretted the move ever since. I don't watch many Hollywood films and this just confirmed my belief that 99% of those films are not worth handing $7.50-$10.00 dollars over for. Ah the plot holes, where to begin, there are so many. Now I'm going to get attacked and people are going to say, "But your missing the point if you overanalyze the plot, listen to the message!" No, actually, if you like this film you are missing the point of fine film making. Great films do not contain such horrible plots as what follows.
SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
1. M Night Shamlyan's character should be in jail. He killed a woman just six months ago with his car. Maybe under some obscure loophole he gets out of jail time, but at the very least his driver's license should get taken away for more then six months. Then the humor of this is that in every scene he is seen driving.
2. The aliens creating super spaceships, but lacking in any type of protection or weaponing what so ever.
3. Said super spaceships hiding themselves during the day, but happily turning on their lights so that they CAN be seen when humans normally would not be able to see them.
4. The fact that the signs in the cornfield of the main family in the movie fail to cause any type of stir. Yes yes, Gibson yells to no one imparticular that he isn't going to report the Signs, but the problem is that he already has and that many people know about them: the police officer, the troublemaking brothers that the police officer said she talked to, and I'm assuming her superiors, who would have loved to report something big to the government.
5. Gibson's character's failure to do anything that aligns with human instinct. I'm going to head to where more people are as opposed to try and take on the aliens that I know are going to come on my farm land.
6. Then again Gibson's character does know that the aliens for some reason can not break through wooden structures and have nothing to help them break anything! Yeah, that's not a plot hole!
7. The aliens' failure to realize that water hurts them. The aliens had done many scouting attempts according to the movie. Not once, not ONCE in all of their years had they encountered rain?
Okay, there are more plot holes, but those are the big ones folks. See, good movies do not have these plot holes. Sure you can have a good message, but that doesn't give you the artistic right to have a crappy plot. A bad plot takes away from the movie of course, if you like this movie, you obviously have been watching way too many Hollywood films. Please, if you like this movie, check out the following films: Amelie, The Red Violin, O Brother Where Art Thou, Life is Beautiful, and Sex and Lucia. Those films are truly beautiful and might just change your life forever.