An insult to human mind...

Rating: 1/10 (8 September 2009)

I would like to warn people that this is no more science fiction than a sermon at a church. Unless the only book you ever read was the bible (or even if you have never read a book), this movie will make you moan throughout the 121 minutes for the lack of imagination the writers so daringly display.
The movie serves as a possible (and quite shallow) justification for the bible. The movie ends with aliens (with angelic forms of course) saving little adams and eves from the world, which is about to be burnt by the sun, and taking them to a planet which is able to sustain human life (not to mention that this planet also harbors a tree of knowledge (moan!!)). Very cleverly it has already been noted early in the film that there should be around 4 million planets that are almost identical to our planet earth, so that the new adams and eves can create their next generation of human kind on one (or many). Not to mention they will inevitably have their own biblical stories (again identical to our own, cheers!). Hence this is probably how our world came to be!! (as is suggested in the movie for the poor souls who can't make this connection)
Now, unless the previous paragraph puts you on the edge of your seat with your hands in a prayer, you will be highly disappointed by this movie.
However it is true that there are amazing shots and quite suspenseful events throughout the movie. In fact there was one continuous shot which consisted of a plane crash, the burning and dying survivors, Nicholas Cage running to the crash site and doing nothing but observing. It was an impressive shot, like many others similar to it. But they almost always end (or begin) with a disappointment, in the form of a gaping hole in the scenario, which shatters the illusion.
Oh I began writing the parts where the astounding stupidity of the characters (or writers) pushes you away from the story and I realized I could have replicated the whole movie here. I will give a few examples in my own words (it is painful to choose one among so many qualified candidates)
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John(Cage): If we hide in a cave we might just survive. But let me check something... Diana: Though we have a day to live (as predicted) I will not wait ten minutes for you. (Diana kidnaps John's son to save him, and drives to the caves)
Later in the story... John (through a phone): The caves will not save us, the sun will burn a mile in to the crust of the earth. Diana: I don't believe you!! I will keep driving to the caves, though you were the one to suggest them as well.
Later in the story... Diana (as she is driving through a loud storm, she screams to her kidnapped daughter who is in another car which is out of sight): Abby!!!!
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The whole movie was just pathetic. One star for actually destroying the world and killing the human kind, a daring move for a Hollywood movie.