Supremacist Religious Propaganda Of The Worst Kind

Rating: Null/10 (12 August 2011)

After a promising start, the movie turns into cheap religious indoctrination very quickly. Cage's not a good actor, everyone knows it, but here his attempts are exasperating. He looks ghastly. The kid actor playing his son is Laurence Olivier in comparison, in looks and acting abilities.
The methods used by the producers to scare you into believing that we humans aren't just a series of biological accidents (which any reasonably intelligent 15 yo. can prove) are the same ones used by religious leaders to recruit weak-minded cultists throughout the centuries: either you believe there's a creator you must fear, or you'll end up in horrible plane crashes, or burned alive, or perish in dreadful explosions, subway derailing, left behind in the final spectacular rapture, etc. Cage's a non-believer and for that he lost his beloved wife in a fire, became an alcoholic, his pastor father (what else) doesn't speak to him and his son's taken away. Only at the end, when it's too late of course, he becomes a believer. So there's the message, folks, don't let all that happen to you, become a believer NOW before it's too late! The ending is ludicrous, racist and corny (in a cornfield, where else?). Two white kids are seen as one of the 'chosen ones', plus two white (again) bunnies. It makes one's stomach turn.
The final visuals are in good taste but the crashes and derailing are fake with that artificial, bogus look that only the digital age can offer us, what happened to REAL special effects, the ones that we can SEE? Beltrami's score is great until he tries to rip off Herrmann's Psycho flight theme. Scientifically, the entire sun premise has absolutely no merit. Watch it if it's free on TV but never spend money buying this.