STUPID

Rating: Null/10 (18 August 2002)

*SPOILERS*
No question Shyamalan is a great director, but he should stay away from pen and paper. With 'Signs' he proves he can make a watchable movie out of a C-grade script and a story-line even the makers of 'Battlefield Earth' or 'Mission to Mars' would have rejected.
'Signs' starts out well, but gets worse and worse as the movie progresses. My jaw dropped several times at the sheer stupidity of it. I can't believe this movie actually got finished, let alone released. The cast and crew should have gone home mid-way through making, realizing that this was going to be the most embarrassing movie ever made. Independence Day is a class-A production compared to this, because at least not for a moment did it try to be taken seriously, the very thing that sinks this movie to the bottom. If you're going to make such trash, at least admit that it's silly and don't try to pass it off as a serious story.
Anyway, thanks to Signs, I now know that:
1. Aliens like to go around scaring little families in rural USA, by playing hide and seek in their crops and walking on their roof at night.
2. A highly intelligent species that can travel through space (and thus time):

communicate by clicking noises that can be heard on a baby monitor;

can be out-witted and locked into a pantry by your average Joe;

can be killed and wounded by water and yet decide to invade a planet that is 75% water with weather patterns that include rain, hail, snow, mist, humidity, etc.;

plan to kill 6 billion people by way of emitting a poisonous gas from their wrists into each human's nose at close range.

like to wait around to be knocked out by a baseball bat when confronted by some angry humans.

and finally, the alien looks like a rather fit man wearing a $2 rubber suit, and what is mind-boggling is that nowhere in the movie did they try to hide this embarrassment.

'Signs' ends the good ol' American way with the father turning back to his religion, his faith restored. After all, how could he have spilt a glass of water on that nasty alien without the help of a man who floats in the sky?