terrible, terrible, terrible

Rating: 3/10 (26 March 2009)

This movie gets a couple of points for special effects. Other than that: the script was terrible, the plot was terrible, the music was extremely terrible. I spent most of the movie wondering why Nic Cage had ever agreed to act in it. It looked like it had been made by a uni student. The plot was so contrived as to be ludicrous. How would he have been able to recognize dates from an uninterrupted sequence of digits? (extremely unobvious) - Yet not realize that the other numbers were locations? (extremely obvious). How did he know exactly where to find the door that the little girl had scraped with her fingernails 50 years ago - and exactly where to scrape the paint? And then, the location discovered in this way contributes practically nothing to the story. What was the point of the black river stones? Did anyone even read the script before they made the movie? I think Hollywood is really running short of good writers and directors these days.