When strange is just plain odd...

Rating: 5/10 (7 June 2009)

Loved Sixth Sense like everyone else. Didn't enjoy Unbreakable at all. Hence, when Signs came along, despite it being the only film I recall the director getting positive reviews for other than "Sense", I waited for a TV showing and am glad I saved my money...
It's an odd film. Really odd. It's not bad, it's not good it's just...odd. The children act like they have Asperger's syndrome they are so brittle and disconnected and odd... The father is odd and his younger brother is odd...
Why do people refer to Mel as "Father" and want to "confess" to him when his character isn't Catholic? Why did the director cast himself and thereby shatter our collective suspension of disbelief? Why does the director's character head off to the lake because he's heard the aliens don't go there?...heard it from whom exactly??? How did he trap an alien in his kitchen cupboard before he went?
I will let others rant about the glaring plot holes --they didn't occur to me at the time I was watching the movie. It's just not a satisfactory entertainment. Ill-thought through to the point of being delusional. And odd. Above all else, it's odd.