A great movie despite a crappy ending....

Rating: 9/10 (19 September 2002)

In Signs, Graham Hess suddenly finds odd shapes in his farm crops. He thinks that it's all just an elaborate scheme conducted by nerds, until his two children start acting odd. As the movie progresses, more and more eerie events occur, Graham now sees figures outside of his house at night, and odd looking figures walking around in his crop fields. His kids and his brother know that it's an Extra Terrestrial, but he still thinks that it's people playing pranks on him. Signs maintains a very charismatic, freakish tone to it. The difference between Signs and previous M. Night Shyamalan films, is that the Signs has more supernatural elements to it. In Unbreakable, there was no eerie tone to it, and in Sixth Sense, there was an eerie tone, but did not feature aliens, or anything related. The greatest part of Signs, is the fact that the film has a very unique and original plot, and the acting was pretty good. Mel Gibbson's plays as Graham Hess, a man who has recently lost his wife, and since then, he has also lost his faith in God. Mel's character has somewhat of a sense of humor. I think that the best part of Signs, was the odd looking aliens. Those were very spooky. I REALLY hated the ending though, everyone said that it had a complete twist in the ending, but it does not. Right now, M. Night Shyamalan has an unbelievably great reputation. Kudos to M. Night Shyamalan for making this piece of art. Great movie, very freaky ass, had great acting, REMARKABLE story, but a very bad ending. Overall, Signs is definitely great. 9 out of 10.