It's OK to take a break Shayamalan

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2007)

Coming on the heels of a smashing hit in "The Sixth Sense", and a solidly satisfying movie in "Unbreakable", "Signs" really didn't live up to the excellence that so quickly has been expected of M. Night Shayamalan. Still, "Signs" was a pretty good movie by all accounts. The movie dealt with two different issues: the lost faith of a former clergyman and the covert attack of aliens. The alien story was very simple and traditional: there were crop circles and the aliens had oval heads with big beady black eyes. Of course it was still suspenseful when seen from the eyes of a family that is holed up in their basement fearfully awaiting their fate. Every antagonist has their weakness though and fortunately for mankind the aliens' weakness was the one thing that the earth is 75% of: water. The movie didn't offer any real twists or attempts at misdirection. It was fairly straight forward and still provided plenty of entertainment.