Easily Shymalan's best film

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2010)

This is M. Night Shymalan's Masterpiece, not Unbreakable, not even the Sixth Sense, Signs is not only one of my favorite movies of all time, but in my opinion it is one of the greatest thrillers ever made.
It's a little slow, that is the only thing wrong with the movie, I will be discussing why the other problems people THINK are wrong with the movie later.
The following does have spoilers. The acting is great, the characters are likable, the effects are minimal but well done, the message is subtle so that people don't feel like they are being preached at and being called morons for being Atheists. It has good undertones, it's is directed extremely well, it's scary at times, and the part that makes it way better than Unbreakble, it has a sense of humor. It doesn't take itself too seriously and lets you laugh quite a bit.
Now for my rant about how people call the ending to this movie stupid. The ending reveals that the alien's poison is water, so why would this advanced alien race come to a planet that would kill them? 1. We don't know for sure the aliens did know that water was harmful to them. We are only given one small hint when Ray Reddy says that none of the circles are near water. Take into account how many crop circles vs. how many crop fields there are in the world. And they knew humans would be on land, so they would want to attack away from the water, where most people would be. Plus when the water does hit the alien near the end, he seems very surprised, almost like he didn't know.
2. If they did know, they were probably desperate. They wanted to heard the humans, so they would do anything to get us. Hey, I hated science, but if there is one thing I did learn, enough water can kill us too.
3. Ray said they didn't have them near water, so they obviously were taking precautions. They said the aliens were leaving by the next day, so they probably didn't want to stay that long knowing the air would eventually kill them.
There, three reasons why the aliens would come to a planet filled with their toxic. But what about the fact that they couldn't get through a wooden door. Well, every door we saw them try to get through was blocked by something, ever try and get inside when a door is blocked, not easy. We even see them turn the door knob, so they obviously know how to get in.
Why did God have to kill Graham's wife just so they would live through the alien encounter? You ever see Run Lola Run and realize how much one little thing you do can greatly effect your future. Imagine if his wife had lived. She only said swing away because she was delirious. Plus if she was alive, maybe they would have tried to leave and been killed. Maybe Merril wouldn't have come to stay with them and thus the whole family would have died. According to this movie, God knew exactly how to make sure the family lived through the ordeal. And taking his wife was part of the plan.
And lastly, why does Graham not just rush Morgan to a hospital and instead rely on faith? Well, one, sometimes logic and reasoning don't make sense and faith is all you have left. If that's not good enough for you, the hospital was quite a bit away and there were probably hundreds of people there, Morgan might not have been able to get in. Plus Graham had good reason to believe he might be alright.
Signs is a masterpiece.