Great start, great idea, lousy middle and ending, plot holes.

Rating: 6/10 (26 July 2010)

WARNING SPOILERS! This movie starts off great but then trails off with plot holes and typical clichés with an anti-climatic ending. It tries to be all genres packed into one and it fails at most. It tries to be a bit of a horror flick, adventure, sci-fi, drama, action, disaster.
The beginning of the movie sets the tone that this will be a scary thriller/horror type movie (creepy girl scratching numbers in the door with bloody fingers). Some drama and character development is added in after when Cage tries to bond with his son and sister after his wife's death, and with some special effects thrown in for good measure (plane crash, subway scene).
Afterwards it tries to be an action movie when Cage runs around with his gun (which he doesn't use) in NY chased by cops as he's trying to stop a disaster. It goes back to being a horror flick again with Cage and the woman going to a creepy mobile home in a foggy forest after which a bunch of scary looking pale people (that appeared randomly in the movie earlier) show up looking for CAge and the woman's kids. There are loose plot holes like those black rocks that don't really mean much but are found in random places during supposedly suspenseful scenes, and when Cage's son scribbling numbers on the paper towards the end of the movie (what's he predicting when everyone will die the next day anyways)? Finally it ends with a giant spaceship coming down in the forest and taking the chosen ones with them while the rest of the world is at the mercy of the sun.
Great idea (time capsule, predictions), but poorly executed.