Another piece of genius..

Rating: 10/10 (2 August 2002)

M. Night Shyamalan is fastly becoming my favorite filmmaker. In Signs, he again masterfully creates a spellbinding tale of an ordinary man (or boy as in the Sixth Sense) in an extraordinary situation. Shyamalan uses all the subtle tools of filmmaking to slowly turn the dramatic screws on the audience. He also displays his ability to somehow hold a key plot point right in front of your face without you realizing until it's payoff at the end. Signs is frightening, poignant, and even has very good humor. This film has all the elements that an intelligent audience could want. To those who don't enjoy this and Shyamalan's films, I suggest maybe going to a film that doesn't require much use of your mind. Something with lots of BOOM BOOM and such. The rest of us will continue to look forward to Shyamalan's work.