a BRILLIANT movie with a bad ending...

Rating: 7/10 (25 August 2003)

M Night does quite a good job building suspense and a genuine fear in his audience. Perhaps he even over does it with the tension in Signs. The characters always are acting strangely, there is always something disturbing in every scene such that there are very few relaxing moments for you to breath again to contrast that tension. The problem is two things...first, the girl has a magical premonition and there is this whole "prophesy" thing going on which is NEVER done well in any movie let alone this one and second, the movie's central message is to have a certain amount of faith and believe in hope and humanity...but then they just have this goofy resolution to the alien invasion that fails to live up to the message.
HOWEVER, the idea of showing a worldwide horror from the perspective of an individual family was absolutely BRILLIANT and truly terrifying in many ways.