What was this movie about?

Rating: 2/10 (14 June 2009)

The first push to watch this movie was that I kinda liked the last several performance from Nicolas Cage. The second was, that I'm big fan of Sci-Fi so with the plot it seemed to be a promising movie which could have some fresh new flicks and great acting. Unfortunately it wasn't.
It is difficult to tell exactly what was my problem of the movie and that is because it is hard to tell what was it about at all. I'm a bit confused about what was the goal behind the script? It seemed that we have four-five different writers putting together what they had from half-ready scripts of horror, action, family drama, sci-fi, end-of-world movies and they could not make a deal, which would be the genre. It was scenes putting behind one another, without leading to anywhere and you could say that nothing happens in the movie. I admit there is a lot of action in the movie but they does not move the story, and they aren't original as well except the plane crash scene, which was the best 60 seconds of the whole thing.
The performing of characters are quite mediocre and unfortunately Nicolas Cage couldn't do any unique performance no matter how hard he was trying to, but because of the huge gaps in the non-existing story line it could be almost impossible. Characters do not develop a bit and even they don't react or behave logical. Why do we need in every "clue-finding" movie a scientist who refuses to see the pattern in front of his/her eyes because of being so proud? Why do parents think that leaving the kids in a car in a dark forest at night a good idea, when they know that some bad men are following them? The mystery behind the 50-year-old prophecy of major disasters annoyingly disappear by the appearance of the aliens. This solution is simply just so lame. We know it from the first scene we see them and is so frustrating that the creators think we won't find it out until the ending.
All together the basic idea behind the story was good and someone could have made a really good scrip out of it from which someone could have made a great movie, but there is only the idea. I rated it 2 out of 10 because after all it have one good scene and they worked a lot of creating nice (and a lot of bad) visual effects. But maybe they shouldn't.