Two great movies!

Rating: 7/10 (24 September 2009)

Great artwork! The scenery has a consistent ominous and gloomy feel to it. Especially the house occupied by the main characters is rather scary and made me think of Freddy Kruegers boiler room, and the hotel in "Barton Fink". As the story unfolds and the end draws nearer everything around the characters reflect that, and the world starts changing resembling how the city changed in "Dark City".
I liked Nicolas Gage a lot in this movie, I think his sister was way too young to be his sister, but that's just a detail.
The only problem I see with this movie is that there are two stories here that are completely independent of each other, or rather, an attempt has been made to tie them together, but still there are two very good ideas for two individual movies: One movie is about the girl being able to predict the future, and the main character John discovering her ability and acting upon it, the other story is about how somebody tries to save the human genome from extinction. What could have made this movie perfect was if there were some correlation between these two stories, but there does not seem to be to me: John can do nothing to change events, and if he never had discovered the girls predictions his son would still have been saved! He finds that crucial prediction on the door (where to go to be saved) but he does not himself transport his son there and could just had left the story at that point - the end would still be the same.
You could actually have taken the entire "girl making predictions about the future and John finding out about it" away from the story, the ending would still (or could still have been) the same.
This I think is a flaw in the script.
Thus I have to subtract three stars from an otherwise perfect movie, which I enjoyed very much.