it was nothing more than "okay"

Rating: 5/10 (12 August 2002)

Contains Spoilers Going into this movie, after seeing the trailers, I expected a great movie, going more in depth in the long debated topic of crop circles, complete with lots of suspense. However, that was not it at all. They barely even go into the crop circles, they pretty much simply explain them in about one line and out of the movie. *What spoiled it for me* ~first off, the aliens themselves. They looked so dumb they pretty much took all of the suspense out of the movie, because I was not scared of them at all. ~M. Night Shyamalan cameo as the man who kills Graham's wife. His performance, for the most part, was very bad. He just had this glazed look and stared in one spot as he delivered his line in this scene that was supposed to be very emotional for Graham when he finally talks to the man that is responsible for his wife's death. ~It said in the movie the aliens were invading to take our resources. Yet they are allergic to water. The earth is mostly made up of water, so that part made absolutely no sense to me. *What I DID like* ~I must say, I did appreciate the acting in this film. Mel Gibson was very good, as always, in his role and I thought he only topped himself in this one. Abigail Breslin, the little girl who plays Bo, is the cutest thing I've seen and I thought she did a very good job as well. The rest of the cast was amazing also. ~I did like the ending, when it is all summed up and Mel Gibson gets his faith back and realized his wife's death had meaning. However, I didn't like the fact that the death of his wife could make a Godly man like a priest stop believing in God, considering it is a well known fact that everyone does die. All in all I thought this movie was okay, nothing more.