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The first time I heard the name "Manoj Night Shyamalan" I had a Sixth Sense that it was good, to my pleasant surprise the result was worth an 8/10.
The second time I heard the name "Manoj Night Shyamalan" I had an Unbreakable confidence that it would be good and with that heroic belief bolstering a comicly mediocre offering the result snuck in at 6/10. The thrid time I heard the name "Manoj Night Shyamalan" there were plenty of Signs warning me off. It was about crop circles, it was £3 in Woolworths, it had the words "extra-terrestrial" and "invasion of the world" written on the sleeve, it was remaindered at £3 in Woolworths. Like the principal of this film (Mel Gibson) I would have done well to head the signs. It's slow to start and when it gets going it does manage 20 good minutes of suspense. And it does have a couple of trademark M. Night Shyamalan turns which on the whole aren't as shoddy as the ending. Philosophically weak and morally overbearing this film comes too many years after the X files and the crop-circle phenonema to raise more than a passing sci-fi/fantasy buff interest. I can only assume M. Night Shyamalan spent more time worrying about his lines in his largish part than worrying about the script, the plot and the direction. Joaquin Pheonix is present and plays the same usuall role with the same usual flare or lack thereof whilst Mel Gibson fails to paint a convincing portrait of a man who has lost faith and an even less convincing portrait of a single father struggling to do the right thing by his children. In conclusion, given my recent approval of Gibson's Passion, I have only two requests to make after watching this utter mediocrity: Mel - your acting days are behind you, get behind that camera and stay there Manoj - if you're gonna go near a camera again pull your socks right up and make a decision about whether you want to be an actor or a director because at the moment you're neither. 4/10 (5 if you still believe in flying saucers or crop circles) D is for Disappointment 11/04/04
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