Not scary, not funny and not making any "sense" at all.

Rating: 1/10 (21 September 2002)

I keep hearing how scary this movie was, but can't connect at all with that thought. Well the only thing I find scary is that so many people actually enjoy something as irrational and unnecessary as this movie. Nothing really makes any "sense" in "signs". The director seems to be somehow unable to make up his mind as to where he wants the movie to lead to and then abruptly ends it with some vague explanation of how the earth was won back again when you never once even got the slightest feeling that it was taken by the aliens. I read this spot on review somewhere and I just need to quote from it here: *spoilers*
"I'm Mel Gibson and there's a crop circle in my backyard. Cue daughter screaming for no apparent reason. Cut to my 9 year old son who just stabbed a German Shepherd to death with a fork. Yes with a fork."
"I'm an alien, behold my superior problem solving skills as I run around at night waking up neighbors and jumping on roofs for no apparent reason. Nevermind rational explanation. We're ALIENS!"
"I have hind legs powerful enough to jump up 10 feet onto rooftops, the technology to conquer the non-trivial challenge of intergalactic space travel, but I'll be DAMNED if I can kick down this wooden door."

"Oh S**t, 5 minutes left in the movie! Not enough time for a plausible ending, let's just allude to a victory over the aliens with a vague reference to the Middle East."
"F**k me in the Ozarks! You humans found our weakness: water. Yes, we failed to realize that water - the most abundant substance on your planet - would kill us although we can walk freely without wearing bodysuits despite all the natural humidity and water vapor in your atmosphere. Aaaargh!"
That about sums it up doesn't it? The movie is plain stupid.