Shyamalan out of ideas

Rating: 2/10 (10 August 2002)

Sixth Sense was based on a great idea, Unbreakable on a passable idea, but Signs doesn't seem to have any idea at all. The aliens are ridiculous, Ed-Woodesque bogeymen, the little boy is irritating, and the tone is alternately flippant and maudlin, with not nearly enough of the former. Evidently Shyamalan was determined to make something really cool again, but the well was dry. Maybe it's time for him to retire and rest on his laurels.