Very intelligent to say the least....

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2002)

I thought that this was an excellent film. I don't care if some of you people continue to bash this movie, it just goes to show you how unintelligent some of you people are. The movie is not really about aliens, that is just the sub-plot, this movie is about faith. Though it could have used a much better ending, I still enjoyed the movie very much. It has great scares, heart-pounding suspense, and although at some points very slow and boring, very thrilling. The fact that they barely showed the aliens was a brilliant move, because it is a proven fact, we fear what we do not know, and we fear what we cannot and do not see. Everything is scarier when you dont see what it is.I think that to save the movie they should have had a better ending. I think what would have been an awesome twist of an ending was to have them abducted at the very final moments of the film. Remember that part of the movie were they were sitting down looking at the U.F.O. book when they came to page that had the space ship outside the house and 3 bodies on the ground that looked like them? They should have used that and they would have had a great twist. It could have been that after he gets his faith back, he finds his children laying on the ground outside of the house, seemingly unconscious. He comes outside, and notices a strange light over them. He looks up, and to his horror, an extra-terrestrial ship is hovering over the house. He tries to escape with his kids, but they are terrifyingly abducted into the ship, then, right there, the movie should end so that it can be a shocker ending. And instead of having the crop circle meanings as navigation for the ships, they could have said it is the own language of trying to communicate with us, in subliminal imagery (almost along the lines of the movie 'Contact', but not with radio signals. I highly recommend this movie if you are in to psychological terror, but if you want a really frightening film, go see "The Ring".
Rated PG-13 for terror/frightening moments and some language.