Far better movie than people or critics give credit

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2011)

Signs is one of those movies where you just have to sit back an watch, while not expecting much or looking too far into the plot. This movie has been tagged as a "Mel Gibson movie," or an "Alien Movie." Neither are accurate. Signs is a movie about a man that has lost his faith through some of life's unfortunate turn of events. His family struggles to cope with the loss of their mother and their father's loss of faith. Sometimes when a person loses all faith, it takes some great event or miracle to turn him or her around, and in this case, its aliens. This is, in my opinion, M. Night Shyamalan's best picture to date, and one of the better films made in the last decade. This is not a big budget special effects picture, and if fact, you hardly see the aliens at all. This movie is suspenseful and downright eerie at times, helped along mostly by Howard's wonderful score. Signs is as creepy as your mind will allow it to be, and on top of that is as much a spiritual odyssey as it is an eerie movie you should watch at night with the surround sound up and the lights off. If you haven't seen this movie based on your dislike of other M Night films, do yourself a favor and see it.