15 Movies That Thought They Were Smart But Totally Weren't

15. Signs

Unlike The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan's previous two films, Signs isn't particularly clever at all. Signs does subvert expectations, but it never seems to be aware of just how silly it truly is and it proves that subversion alone doesn't make a movie smart; the twists actually have to make sense. Unfortunately, Signs collapses as soon as you apply Any sort of logic to it.

There are two big twists in this alien invasion thriller. Firstly, protagonist Graham Hess (a near career-worst Mel Gibson) lost his wife six months earlier and he was able to speak with her before she died. Her final words were "swing away"; she was telling Graham to say this to his former baseball-player brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix).

Graham, during the film's finale, realises that his wife's death was actually a divine intervention and that these words were intended to inspire him to tell Merrill to use his baseball bat on an alien attacking the house. Err...

Why did a woman have to die to inspire someone to use a blunt object against an attacker? There simply isn't any logic here.

The second twist is that the aliens are susceptible to water... so why did they invade a planet that's 70% water?! These aliens are meant to be the film's scary villains, but because they're evidently so stupid it's impossible to be scared by them.

Clearly, Shyamalan didn't quite think this through.