It's not "The Sixth Sense," but a good movie overall.

Rating: 6/10 (10 August 2002)

There has been so much buzz around this movie and it's director Night Shyamalan that perhaps I was expecting too much. It's a good movie. Mel Gibson and J. Phoenix are great in their roles. The movie is beautifully filmed and directed, but as the ending credits began to roll I felt there had to be more.
Unlike "Unbreakable" and "The Sixth Sense," which dealt with earth-bound topics, "Signs" spends too much time eluding to aliens that we never get to see much of. That worked well during the first half of the movie when you're not sure if the entire thing is a hoax or not; however, by the end of the movie I found myself wishing that I could have seen more of what was going on in the corn field and less of what was going on in Gibson's beautiful Victorian farm house.
"Signs" is a good movie, worth the price of admission, but if Shyamalan truly is "The Next Spielberg" as Newsweek Magazine proclaims, then he needs to show us what's going on in the corn field and in the sky above Mexico City next time.