Next time will not just be a short visit.

Rating: 7/10 (3 August 2002)

Excellent in respect to keeping me attentive. M. Night Shyamalan's clever Sci-Fi thriller falls short in regards to the promos giving you some false hopes of a really scary story. There are a couple of scenes that come close to making you *#^S your pants. Mel Gibson plays a widowed farmer and former man of the cloth. When crop circles show up in his corn fields as well as multiple sites around the world, shattered faith is put to the test. His brother(Joaquin Phoenix) a down on his luck minor league home run champion comes to live with his recently widowed brother and two children. There is the little boy with asthma and a daughter that has a phobia concerning drinking water. Screen time for the alien visitor is not much, but down right creepy. The budget must have been spent on Gibson because the E.T. was mainly in the shadows and looking like a Halloween costume contestant. Tension is high and yes you do have to wait and wait for the suspense to flop out at you. All in all, I really liked this as compared to say... "SPIDER-MAN". Watch the skies! They will be back!