A Bit Of A Departure

Rating: 4/10 (26 August 2015)

Now we get to Shyamalan's third film, "Signs". This is also where I feel his movies started to decline. But we will get to why in this review.
Now something I should mention is that I don't think this is a terrible movie, but I wouldn't consider it good. But there are a good amount of people who do like this movie, but this is my opinion.
One thing I should mention is that a lot of the acting is very robotic, not as robotic as Shyamalan's later films but still noticeable. Also there are the child characters who act like adults and some of the adult characters act like kids. Also Shyamalan does the Hitchcock-Tarantino thing where he casts himself as a character in the movie. But here's the thing, with Hitchcock he cast himself as a background character, not an important character, and Tarantino can actually act. Which is important when you are making yourself a somewhat major character. So yeah, Shyamalan isn't a very good actor, which is made more clear by his next movie.
Also now we have a slower paced movie now then the last one, which would be fine if it wasn't so boring. That's kinda the major problem with this movie is that it isn't very interesting, not even the aliens are all that interesting. There is also some attempted suspense but that also fails, but there are some good moments though. Sorry if I don't have much to say about this movie, its just a bunch of boring stuff that happens and that's it.
And for those wondering why I didn't talk about the ending, I would recommend you watch this analysis of the movie that talks about the ending. Even though I don't agree with his opinion about the movie, he does give a good point about the ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Ju05PuiyQ