The ads are deceiving...

Rating: 5/10 (3 August 2002)

You think this is a thriller, that's only partly right. You think this is about crop-circles and aliens; and that's only part of the tale as well.
What this is really about is losing one's faith. Losing love. Losing in general.
The aliens, the crop-circles, the whole thing you see in the ads is just a decoy, a ruse if you will, to mask what's really going on.
The ads say "Don't see it alone." I did. And everyone else in the theatre with me who was with someone didn't fare any better. We all saw the same thing.
What we saw was a movie that was not as good as "The Sixth Sense" or "Unbreakable," but was good on it's own merits. ...Well, except for the alien... That was a guy in a rubber suit and it showed.
But again, the aliens were a mere backdrop; and a not very good one at that.
"Signs" is clearly better than many movies out there, but not nearly as good as what we *thought* it would be. That's what really saddens me. SO much so I have to give this the lowest rating yet for Mr. Shyamalan.
"5" out of "10," and he gets those mostly for effort. True there are some jolts here and there, but that, in the end, just isn't enough for "Signs" to warrant anything more. I would have liked to see the movie I thought this was going to be.
So did everyone else who saw it with me.