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Rating: 3/10 (3 August 2002)

I just got through seeing this movie and it was a huge, unbelievable disappointment. It was advertised as being about crop circles,UFOs,and aliens. Well, it had all that in it but it was also advertised as being scary or creepy and like something big and suspenseful would happen. The suspense is waiting for something anything to happen to wake you up out of the coma that you'll be in watching this sleeper. This movie is not really about spooky crop circles and figuring out what they mean or even the UFOs or aliens. It's about a man who has lost his faith in God and finds it again. The same old typical dramatic mambo jumbo. I went thinking that this would be an original movie about crop circles and the mysteries surrounding them. Possibly the movie might have addressed whether it was a message made by aliens to communicate with each other or some other beings on some other planet. But this movie didn't do that. Sure it speculated that the crop circles were SIGNS of something beyond, sending a message out to the other aliens but it really didn't explore that idea much.
I thought that finally a decent movie on the subject of crop circles was being made. Crop circles are real after all and many people don't realize just how many crop circles there are out there. This movie instead focuses on a family and the tragedy that they have experienced. My problem with this movie is that it was advertised to be something that it is not. It sucks in that way! What it turned out to be was a drama full of some creepy and suspenseful moments but for the most part was about the family. In this way, it still sucked! It was typical. The ending was predictable after all that you had seen!
The only up side to this film is that it had a lot of funny parts. It was more funny than anything else. Thank goodness for that much!
This movie needed more. Maybe someone else will make an incredible movie more thoroughly exploring the mystery of crop circles and still be able to tell an emotionally charged story that intrigues and excites the audience. I'm not saying make a documentary because that's been done I've seen those but incorporate more techniques to both explore more deeply the mysteries of crop circles as well as explore the people that they affect. Don't use the subject of crop circles as a tag line to really tell a story about a classic family drama without making it clear in the advertisement. I've seen other movies do this same misleading crap and I'm getting tired of it!!!!
Watch this movie if you want to see a somewhat creepy,suspense about something you already figured out, and to see Mel Gibson cry like a baby.