Don't bother

Rating: 1/10 (6 April 2009)

This has to be the WORST movie I've seen in years. The premise started out great, caught my interest and I was all set to be entertained. And it just progressively got worse. Bad acting, horribly overly dramatic and intrusive music, bad dialog, ridiculous posturing by Nic Cage...bad bad bad, culminating with one of the most trite and overused plot ideas by sending all these gifted children to another planet until "the Earth heals itself."
There was no clarification about who the aliens were that took the children, what was the motivation for them? Were they the Guardians of All Things Ecologically Good On Earth? Or just Alien Busybodies who had to stick their noses in? And didn't I just love the image of the aliens having possible wings...OMG...WERE THEY ANGELS???111@@!!? Bit heavy handed on the symbolism there guys. Give it rest.
Nicolas Cage made the (totally expected) sacrifice of sending his son on without him and then reuniting with his estranged father was so overly dramatic it gave me a headache. Then all of them standing together in a group hug as the solar flare hit the earth? Ick. Go see Gigli before seeing this.