Signs (2002)

Wake up! Snap to! Mel Gibson does both the first time we see him in Signs. You'll know why when you see the movie, a dazzling white-knuckler from the probing mind of M. Night Shyamalan, the writer and director of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Here's the thing about Shyamalan: Any hack can work you over. Shyamalan, in the Hitchcock tradition, goes deeper. He turns the goose-pimple genre on its empty head and fills it with spirit, purpose and emotionally bruised characters who add up to more…

When an intricate pattern of circles and lines appears in a Pennsylvania cornfield, a farmer and his family unfold a mystery that will forever change their lives.

Story

This is one time when giving away too much of the story will ruin the experience--and much like M. Night Shyamalan's other two films, you do not want that to happen. Suffice to say the writer/director of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable is maturing into an extremely talented storyteller. The film sets up enough creepy moments to…

You no longer need a sixth sense to figure out what writer-director M. Night Shyamalan was up to in this tale of a lapsed minister (Mel Gibson) who faces down an alien invasion on his Pennsylvania farm. On this jam-packed DVD, which goes easy on promo filler, Shyamalan lays out his process. Gibson, as a widower living alone with his kids (Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin) and brother (Joaquin Phoenix), has no clue why crop circles have mysteriously appeared on his property. But now you will, as…