Mediocre, on level with signs.

Rating: 7/10 (18 November 2002)

***SLIGHT SPOILERS*** Just not enough depth; as we saw with mel's latest. this movie is just brain-numbingly mediocre and the dialogue can be memorized in one sitting - as it rarely has any asides from the commands. Gun fire and death does not make a movie - a movie is made by its context and its social significance; a movie is good when it relates to one in the way it was intended to do so. i really dont know what this movie was supposed to do ... entertain us? didn't do that. I just kept waiting on something sad / dramatic to happen; never came. worth a one night rental but i wish i had my $19.99 back so i could buy the special edition of Se7en (which is farly superior to the movie in question here) Signs didn't really have a purpose... the movie pace was awkward and it really didn't do much for me. the only sentiment that revived the film was the man running over father grahms wife (spoiler?) that and her telling, in her dying moments, for phoenix to swing away; perhaps she knew of the on-coming invasion and what was to happen and it was used through fate that she die so he'd have what she said to compell him to tell phoenix to swing away. average movie, not ground-breaking; worthy of a dvd collection.
Not horrible, but it sure as hell isnt groundbreaking. Want a decent war movie? rent full metal jacket or braveheart (gibsons best) otherwise retreat to your mainstream harry potter bs that appeals to the mainstream audience because of the clever merchandising.