I thought there was some purpose to all this... how can I fight the sun?

Rating: 9/10 (17 July 2009)

Not the exact line, but that's what it basically boiled down to. Immediately my thoughts jump to Superman, who Nic Cage almost played, and how the action star NEVER fails to rescue humanity.
This movie is beautifully written, even if the execution was at times odd, notably in the quality of cgi, but the story and tension more than made up for anything technical. The plane crash was terrifying even if the people were dying in cg flames.
But the script... wow. Everything was so perfectly planted. We are simultaneously driven to act but helpless in the end; insignificant in the scope of the universe but incredibly important on a human scale.
Is there a God? Who knows. All we can do is protect our children and hope that when it is all said and done we will meet them somewhere in an afterlife, if one exists.
Fantastic movie, but Nicholas Cage should change his haircut, and maybe grow a goatee.