If you’re a fan of the last-minute switcheroos in The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, this latest genre reworking from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan may initially seem underwhelming – the revelation comes not during a dramatic twist of the plot,
but during a quiet change in its hero’s heart. That would be Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), a lapsed pastor who’s forced to reconsider his faith when massive, mysterious designs appear in his corn field. Unsettling on a variety of levels, Signs asks what it means to believe in the same way that television’s “The X-Files” paired alien conspiracy theories with Agent Scully’s fragile Catholicism.
