a great film but very misunderstood

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 2003)

If you want to see lots of gore and explosions and aliens with ray guns go watch Independance Day or Aliens because that's not what your going to get by watching this film. Many people who disliked this film called it "boring" or "far fetched" well everyone is entitled to their opinions but it seems nowadays many movieviwers expect to see the meaning right there. Well for films like Signs you have to be willing to look deeper. It's about family and faith not about aliens coming to blast the human race into oblivion. The aliens are only a part of the film. I personally thought Signs was a very enjoyable film. I thought Joaquin Phoenix was great as Mel Gibson's brother and provided good comic relief for the film and I personally don't know why some people had a problem with Shyamalan himself playing the role of Ray it was only a minor role.
(WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD)
The film was quite suspenseful and at times frightening the scene in which Merill is watching the porteguese tape it has us dying for antocipation of our first glimpse of the alien creature and Merill's reaction was just classic.
Many People complained about the ending I thought the ending was quite good People had a problem with Merill using a baseball bat to subdue the alien creature well..they live on a farm what other weapon was available??? and it made sense since Merill played baseball and Ghram's wife told Merill to "Swing Away"(again you have to look depper into the meaning) and Bo's glasses of water she left behind which helped defeat the alien along with Morgan's Asthma which was killing him but in the end saved his life. I thought it was rather clever and like Mathias said much more clever then anything you naysayers would have thought of. Signs was a great film 9/10 go watch it and see for yourself but know what kind of film you are watching.