A sign of great film-making!

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 2002)

I went into Signs hoping to see a scary, alien thriller. I came out seeing one of the most thought provoking films of the summer, sugar coated with a sci-fi subplot.
M. Night Shamalyn is showing to be the next Hitchcock in this amazing movie about a farmer (Gibson) who turns away from God after his wife is killed in a car crash. He lives with his two children (both is "Haley Joel Osmand" callibre performances) and his brother (Joaqin Phoenix proving he is more than the emporer from Gladiator) when crop circles appear at his farm.
The movie starts right in with Gibson finding the circles, and trying to figure out the meaning. Other circles had appeared all over the world, and soon lights are over Mexico city.
The movie is terrifying, my heart was still pounding ten minutes after the film was done. M. Night Shamalyn had done it again. The best part of the movie though is its story in finding our meaning in life. The crop circles simply act as a metaphor for his life (strange things happen, and he doesn't know why it happened). This is not the first time M. Night Shamalyn has done this. If you recall that sixth sense was more about communication than seeing dead people.
I highly recommend that everyone go see this movie. I rank it as one of the summers best, up there with Minority Report and Road to Perdition.>