Good god how overrated!

Rating: Null/10 (7 September 2002)

POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD!!
I think it's sad that it made the top 250 for this site. It just shows how the quality of movies has drastically gone done over time. While the acting was good...that was about it.
The children talked and acted like adults. Didn't they laugh or play? They were too serious. And Mel Gibson's character was far too grim. I understand that his wife was recently deceased, but I don't recall him smiling once throughout the entire movie.
And the alien being a typical green man? Oh puh-leeze! That just furthered the common misconception of a "martian" having the physique of a human being but with green skin.
One last thing that irritated me was the whole spiritual miraculous thing. Everything was there for a reason...the baseball bat, Bo's cups of water. Then...awwww....how sweet, Mel became a priest again!
I laughed hard throughout the entire movie...it didn't scare me at all. It should have been marketed as a comedy, not horror.