everything dies in the end

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2010)

End of World movies always get a bad rap because everyone has a notion of how the world should end or shouldn't and then there's further arguments from the religious and the atheists and then big bang theory exponents are rarely happy either. So with all contentious theories out of the way, I think director Proyas did an excellent job approaching this subject, I saw this without knowing the plot and half-way through this movie I didn't think it was gearing up for the apocalypse so I was pleasantly surprised (if that doesn't sound too morbid) on how this panned out. I think the aliens/angels at the end whisking the kids away to the new world was unnecessary but we all know big films from big studios must have some element of hope or good so people don't leave movie theaters depressed. Some of the action sequences like the plane crash scene and the skyline burning up were mesmerizing and I made sure i saw those again on the interesting special features. And I liked the plot as well with cage piercing together all the individual disasters leading up to the big one. Good entertainment and I don't care if that will happen in that way but it should be said as a footnote that everything in life lives and dies eventually, even planets, its the cycle of life.