made me laugh bitterly

Rating: 1/10 (8 September 2009)

What follows is a spoiler. Please read this before considering watching this movie.
So, what is this story about. Life on Earth is about to be extinct because of some radiation storm whatever. The Earth is actually burnt by the sun. And this is not going to happen in a long time after this present day, when the sun WILL burn the Earth while becoming a supernova. It happens in 2009.
Now, some alien species knows this. They know as early as ... 50 years ago. They have far more superior technology than us (you should see their spaceships) but ... they do not consider using it to save our planet. Do they have some directive which sounds like the Star Treck do not interfere thing? Who knows. Anyway, these aliens do not want to save our planet, they only want to rescue 2 kids, male and female, so that the human species can "survive" (wow, and here we go again with the debate: will they be cloned or what, brothers mating sisters ?) More probably they want 2 specimens to put them into a galactic zoo, but hey, it's definitely not clear in the movie either, believe me.
So, the film is about how do this aliens get the 2 kids.
Well, they begin by whispering to a little girl of 50 years ago, stuff that drives her crazy. They whisper to her the date, location and number of victims of future major accidents, terrorist attacks, plane crash, you name it, for the next 50 years, culminating with the great accident that wipes us all out.
The school of the little girl (who is American by the way) wants to make a event to celebrate the school's anniversary, and they choose (wow) this little girl's idea - lets make a time capsule .... the kids all make drawings for kids 50 years later to open ... while the girl writes numbers, numbers, numbers, incessantly ...
OK, so the alien plan goes on. 50 year later. The kid who gets this curious letter is the son of a astrophysicist. He has lost his wife in a fire one year ago. He is very troubled by this ... He is also the son of a pastor. He does not speak to his father (presumably because he is a pastor while the son has "chosen" science). This astrophysicist (I'll refer to him as Nicolas Cage to make it simpler) actually makes sense of the numbers, and finds those accidents cited in this coded letter all on the Internet. He even gets involved in both of the next 2 on the list .... while the last mentioned there is ... you guessed it, the LAST one.
He manages to get in touch with the daughter of the little girl who once wrote the letter. She also has a daughter. Both their kids have the same ability of hearing whispers ... remember the aliens? It is not clear why these particular kids hear the whispers - are they chosen, or the aliens whisper to all the kids, but only these 2 have begun hearing them ...
Anyway, to make it short, well yes, the sun will burn the Earth, these 2 kids will go with the aliens, while Nicolas Cage dies in peace (unlike many of the rest of "us"), returning home to his father, because the revelation to him was that aliens saving his kid (or kidnapping his kid) means there is "something" more after death ...
Lets add some details - black stones all over the place means the aliens are near. The aliens are revealed in the end to be angel like creatures of light, still, when they take human form, they cant help but look very creepy. They also have the ability to open their mouth and emit a very intense light which will blind you and allow them to go away (while you're blinded).
Nicolas Cage thinks him calling the FBI will make them stop the traffic in a specific area. When he realizes this is not true, he argues with a policeman about it. He also thinks a terrorist got scared and ran because he stared at him.
Let me see what else I can remember. Oh yes, the first little girl, the one with the letter, commits suicide (why didn't the aliens rescue her, she was listening to their whispering and getting crazy because of it - oh yes, but that was also part of their plan).
The 2 kids get also to go away to their new world with 2 bunnies. And the final setting with their new world, when I think about it, it just reinforces my idea that it is a galactic zoo where these 2 kids are held in display.
OK, so this is it. Considering this kind of script, would you consider spending all the money, energy and effort it takes to make a movie out of this??? For me, this is a new low in how stupid can a movie get and how vast amounts of money can be spent on garbage in this world (instead of designing a device to save us from the sun hi hi hi).
Hope you do not go to see this. But it might work if you expect it to make you laugh.