Signs is no ID4!

Rating: 9/10 (4 August 2002)

If you went to this film to see Independence Day, you went to the wrong movie. It wasn't just about Gibson's character's spiritual discovery, with a sci-fi plot thrown in there. What you see is an alien invasion from the perspective of a small family, in a small town. I think this movie was excellent. Everything about it was good. The acting, writing, directing, plot, lighting, music...you name it, this movie produced it.
It seems most people can't handle a movie where they have to use their mind or imagination. If fx aren't thrown around throughout a movie, its no good. This movie creates real intensity and suspense, where a movie like ID4, with the exception of the first 10-15 minutes, never does. We don't need to see the aliens blowing up cities, or sucking the brains of humans, to know the real terror is the unknown. The unknown feeling that the central characters are feeling and going through. They don't know what's going on either. We go through it with them. Its an absolutely brilliant movie. Night is amazing.
This wasn't exactly a review of the movie, as much as it was to rebuttal the review I saw on here, and other sites, and the reviews to come.