A story about faith, not aliens.

Rating: 6/10 (3 August 2002)

Contrary to many beliefs about this film, I truly feel that it is a film
about faith with a surrounding of an alien invasion; not a film about
an alien invasion with faith thrown in. Signs is an extremly well
written story and very wonderfully shot. M. Night Shyamalan is not
the most amazing director, but he is by far the most amazing story
teller of our time. Watching one of his movies is like listening to
your grandmother slowly reading a bedtime fairy-tale to you and
letting your imagination run away with the concepts. It might
sound corny, but it's true. None of his films are big on glorious
special effects or awesome action sequences... they are all based
upon a genuine flow of story. The ambiance Shyamalan creates
is so perfectly eerie that it reinforces my strong belief that its what
you DONT see that's scary. Also, I think that the young actress
who played Bo stole the show... I have no idea where they found
such a perfect little girl for the part, but she did amazing compared
to other child actors in movies today. Joaquin Phoenix also did an
outstanding job and almost made Gibson look like an amature
(almost...).
POTENTIAL SPOILER: The best and most frightening part for me
was the birthday party on the news... VERY well done...

********8 stars********