DON'T see it alone!

Rating: Null/10 (2 September 2002)

Wow...Signs was...wow....To put it into perspective, I have NEVER cried at a movie from sheer fright until now!! I would recommend taking an emotionally stable friend (or one with severe ADHD who can't focus long enough to know what's going on) along for the ride since you'll be freaking out to no end!!

Though there is a long stretch of time where you just keep WAITING and WAITING for something to happen, and are forced instead to gaze into Mel Gibson's beautiful...sexy...baby blues (ew, and he's, what? 50? geez that's old!), the last half of the movie will make you darn near pee your pants in sheer terror @_@ Shalyaman's portrayal of one single family's reaction to world-shattering events, a slice of life rather than a grandiose perspective, was nothing less than cinematic genius. The setting was all too perfect...cornfields are scary enough to begin with, but throw in a few spandex-clad "aliens" (not a spoiler!), and you have a recipe for fright. And I've resorted to cliches to describe Signs...*sigh* ~_~
But despite my praises for a filmmaker FINALLY making a genuine scary movie, it's still the kind you only really need to see once. Otherwise it loses part of its suspenseful magic.