Rotten movie - should be skipped!

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2002)

This makes my list of worst movies of all time. Viewers comments here who gave it thumbs up, must simply be too young to have seen some of the greatest of all horror films, e.g., Dracula with Bela Lugosi, the original Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and many others that truly draw you into the film, making you feel you genuinely involved and hence a really scary experience. "Signs" was simply stupid, totally failed to create a "suspension of disbelief", and on the contrary made you skeptical of most of what you were seeing. The veterinarian (played by Shymalan himself) is sitting in his SUV, appears to have been shot in the belly, yet carries on a calm conversation with Mel Gibson, formerly the Reverend Hess, makes it clear he is driving to the lake (for self-preservation or for suicide?), yet the good Reverend says not a word to dissaude him, nor do we learn if he was shot, or injured in some other way, how, and by whom (aliens?). Perhaps the film did explain it, but I might have fallen asleep.
Some gave the actors raves. Mel Gibson of course is a professional. The sweet little girl could rarely be understood, maybe one word in ten - yes I got the "I want a glass of water" line, but missed what her problem with the water was, and why only she could detect it. Probably dozed off again. Lost interest just about from the opening scene, would have walked out, but wanted very much to see what explanation the script would come up with for crop circles. These are a REAL phenomenon and have been the subject of attention by numerous respected scientists including physicists, agricultural experts, etc. No explanation has been found in the real world, and none at all is offered by the film. One of its great disapppointments. Clearly formed by aliens from space, but how or why or what they are supposed to indicate is left entirely to the imagination of the viewer (which is where I was before I entered the theater).
I add my agreement to those who said the signs they were looking for were the red one saying EXIT, or the one saying "Refunds Available at the Box Office". Save your money!