Well Made Poorly Written

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2004)

The follow up th "Signs" follows in its footsteps with a well made, acted, photographed, directed but poorly written movie.
SPOILERS
This thing is like a big budget Scooby Doo episode (Darn those meddling youngsters!) and just as easy to figure out. To be fair I had heard there was a twist so I was looking for it so maybe that made the "secrets" easy to figure out. For an example of the poor writing look at the scene in the guard shack at the end, it was like something a high school kid would write, conveniently clearing up all nagging questions we might have. ITS A MOVIE!!! SHOW ME THINGS. Its always a sign of bad writing when characters sit around and explain things or open a proverbial (or in this case a literal) Pandora's box full of goodies to explain things. Ugh!! I loved "6th sense" (the twist at the end was SHOWN to us) and "Unbreakable" but "Signs" and "Village" are awful.