Mumbo jumbo-fi, not sci-fi

Rating: 2/10 (25 August 2009)

I had high expectations for this movie. Sci-Fi movie of the year and all that. On the positive side, it must be said that it had some decent graphics and special effects, but which movie doesn't, these days.
What it turned out to be was just an endtime+prophecy movie where those torched by the divine auschwitz barbecue at the end happily smile and hold hands because they "will be going to a better place". We also get some religious imagery along the way of the sufferings of hellfire when a plane crashes and all these people run around fully aflame, tormented, and similarly a bit further into the movie when we get to see a moose fully on fire in a forest blaze. I didn't know a running animal could burn that well, and they probably can't, so this was one of many speculative religious images – in what I believed to be a sci-fi movie.
Well, sure, there was a kind of spaceship at the end, well a fleet of them, but that was about it for the "sci" part. It was mostly "fi" with some rather different category than "sci" before it. To put it bluntly: This was not sci-fi, it was mumbo jumbo-fi with a spaceship tacked on at the end!