Its more than just some hidden religious agenda....

Rating: 6/10 (6 August 2009)

I want to start off by saying I do not thing this movie is the best sci-fi hit like some are complaining this shouldn't be, nor a great directed/written movie. It was an entertaining movie that I gave a decent score for. It did have its weak points in the direction of the plot but, in the end, I was intrigued throughout the film. I do however want to comment on the blanket statements others have posted reviewing this film as some hidden religious agenda about the end times. Yes, you do find many things that are related to the bible... but that is the point. What I found interesting was the story pointed out a common sci-fi theme that is not entirely new... that aliens could have played a major role in our being and evolution. They went another route by tieing in a Christian flavor with the "book of revelations". I think those michael mann wanna be's exposing some hidden agenda need to realize the point of the film was to tie all common human history of god/myths/legends of our past into one defining possiblility... that it was all misunderstood as aliens. The aliens had a wispy aura like angel wings, prophets were merely people who received telepathy messages from the aliens warning of our future, the rapture was nothing more than a giant "noahs arc" spacecraft which grabbed certain humans as "chosen" to preserve the life on earth after doomsday. One way to prove this is the father who was a pastor... a man of faith who by religious edict should have been one of the chosen as the rapture states....though he remained on earth. I just get a kick of those who remember something painful in their childhood in Sunday school and say "i remember a scary story of the end times, this must be a pro-Christian movie!"... without merely just taking all the information in unbiased and merely seeing it as that... entertaining.