misleading preview not to mention underdeveloped story

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2002)

The acting wasn't bad, the directing wasn't either. But as far as being considered a good movie, I would rank this movie with 'Hollow Man'. I guess that was kind of mean. Anyone see the trailer or the previews for this movie and think it had something to do with aliens? I sure did. I thought this movie was about aliens invading the Earth and the warnings they were leaving us through crop circles that appeared years before, hence the name 'Signs'. Little did I know that this would end up being a feel good movie of restoring your faith into God through the help of signs. Not only did the writer foreshadow this story to death, the plot had potential to thicken in so many ways but still managed to leave the audience with nothing. You'd think that intelligent life with technology that advanced would think of attacking the human race with something more harmful than gas not to mention the lack of research the aliens did on a planet that is 75%(?) water, when water ended up wiping most of them out and driving them away from Earth.
The only thing that I will take with me from this movie is that 'there are two types of people in this world', but even that wasn't too profound. I must say though, the tinfoil did caps add character.