Sign of a bad movie

Rating: 4/10 (2 August 2002)

The basic premise of an alien invasion from one family's point of view is a potentially interesting spin. Signs was billed as a 'War of the Worlds' type of film and that's probably an unfair comparison. M. Night missed many of things that made 'War of the Worlds' among others such good stories, letting the viewers use their own imagination to create the anxieties. It's a shame that we continue to see this type of screen play that tells you every step of the way what is going to happen in the next scene and keeps you from being engrossed in the story. As for the ending, it is very contrived, but thankfully it did end.