Good entertainment value, bad plot

Rating: 5/10 (22 June 2009)

This movie has good entertainment value, OK acting and keeps the suspense going for most of the film.
Hovewer towards the end it becomes increasingly clear how bad the plot is. It does not hold together at all, and doesn't answer many of the questions in the movie. Instead it makes a lot of what has happened earlier in the movie seem pointless. There's been a plot with no points, and a chase with no goal.
There is a warning early on that something is not quite right with this movie. When the character played by Cage is introduced it is in a classroom as a teacher, where he's teaching something that might appear to be astrophysics. It's hard to say.
But he gives a short speech about the difference between a deterministic world, and a world where there is randomness. The problem is that it is total nonsensical pseudoscience. Unfortunately this speech is setting some of the premises for the plot and where this movie is going towards the end.
OK entertainment value, but don't expect too much from the plot.