Generally good... until the ending which ruins it a little

Rating: 7/10 (12 January 2008)

In my opinion, "Signs" is an okay movie, entertaining enough and has a good level of tension, suspense and thriller, as well as a reasonably dramatic story. But it isn't much more than just an okay piece of entertainment.
At my point of view, most of the climax of the movie is during nearly the entire film, because we don't really know how the ET's look like until almost the ending. When the ET's finally appear, it's a major disappointment, because they're so ugly, badly designed and they even look green-like (as if they were wearing military or war clothes)! This is mostly what makes me rate this movie a bit lower, although, to be fair, fortunately the ET's appearance is short.
If you ask me, they should have created these ET's more carefully, like Steven Spielberg did in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence".
Mel Gibson proves once again to be a good dramatic actor, portraying an ex-priest (or Father) who has lost his faith... until he recovers it at the end.
Besides the tension, thriller, suspense and drama, I also like very much those giant crop circles made by the aliens. No doubt that they were perfectly made. Really very well made. Apparently not even a human hand could do crop circles this fine.
Overall, a reasonable movie, but the same director (M. Night Shyamalan) has a much better movie than this: "The Sixth Sense", his most popular and most praised movie all over the world.