Not so great.

Rating: 4/10 (5 May 2009)

For years I have been waiting for a decent Nicolas Cage film. Alas I am going to have to wait longer. For the record I think he is fine (Wild at heart, Con Air, Leaving Las Vegas all okay films), it is mainly the scripts of everything else that lets him down.
So this film starts to look pretty promising. I am thinking thriller/horror. The idea behind the discovery of a piece of paper predicting dates, number of victims and co-ordinates of disasters is fabulous. The plane crash was really well done and quite shocking when it first came down.
However the last 1/3 or 1/4 of the film was terrible and undid all the good early work as it turned sci-fi (like sci-fi also but please, I think they were hedging their bets on the genre front). Aliens or were they angels?, bunny rabbits, Cage's endless crying and his stupid legs apart stick out the crotch stance whilst endlessly crying really started to grate. I longed for the end and eventually it came. The effect of the earths destruction was actually pretty good.
This gets a 4/10. Its not the worst thing I have seen but I would not see it again and if I had a choice I would ask for my money back.