Better than 6th Sense

Rating: 10/10 (2 August 2002)

It's amazing to see how many reviews are out there saying this movie is the best film this year and yet there's the same amount of reviews stating it's the worst movie this year. I am here to say being an avid movie fan that this movie is a very good film and deserves a nine out of ten at the least. If you thought this movie was based on shrieks and freaks that go bump in the night your mistaken. Unfortunately Mr. Shyamalan didn't have control over the making of the trailers. This movie goes deeper than aliens and sinister sounds; it goes right to the soul. The movie bases life on faith and trust. Whether it's faith in a supreme being like a God or faith in something smaller like another race far beyond Earth. Signs is built up like any other Shyamalan film making you learn and yet wonder about the characters for the first twenty minutes. Then after the long twenty minutes the film gains conflict and the anxiety of the film goes to insane proportions. This film is not meant for young children and teens but mainly for adults that have struggled with life and need to hang on just a little bit longer. Now of course some of what I wrote falls under implicit meanings but to understand the film you've got to break the middle and end of the film (Signs) especially down. If you're not into that then it's a great film that portrays a family in a world conflict. I will also state that the movie did freak me out of times but it was just an added bonus to what Shyamalan was going at. As Shyamalan said in a review not to long ago, `If I didn't have aliens at all in Signs I would at least still get my point across.' -9/10-