Redundant

Rating: Null/10 (4 July 2009)

Roger Ebert called it "the best science fiction movie ever made". It just happens to be made by the director and writer of Dark City, Alex Proyas, who is a friend of Ebert's. Roger Ebert did an audio commentary track for Proyas for the movie Dark City.
Ebert is off his cancer meds if he thinks this movie is good. It's another unhealthy dose of religious propaganda from Hollywood. I was sickened by I Am Legend which turned the great original Matheson story into a religious propaganda piece.
This movie is an original screenplay so it's less annoying but still a religious propaganda piece. It's hard to give reasons why without completely giving away the plot.
I don't mind that the religious folks make movies like this but they should be honest about it. Everyone knew that the sci-fi film Battlefield Earth was written by the father of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard. The writers of this film should have promoted it as a Christian science fiction movie. Then I could stay away and all the Christians could go to it in droves with their church. Even so, there's no science in this movie. Maybe science fiction wouldn't be the best term to use, maybe it's simply Christian propaganda.
The acting was also very poor in this movie. I chuckled several times when Nicolas Cage got all serious. He's a widow with a child, a scenario all too familiar for these movies. Mel Gibson was a widowed single parent in the very similarly themed "Signs". The movie also reminded me of the struggling single mother in "The Sixth Sense". Both movies have elements of psychic children. We know Cage is a troubled man who has lost his faith (Hey, just like Mel Gibson in Signs!) because there are several scenes of him chugging liquor from a bottle.
This movie is redundant religious crap. Don't waste your time.