One of the biggest disappointments since Indiana Jones 4

Rating: Null/10 (27 October 2009)

To this day, I am still appalled by this utter FAILURE. This movie starts to look good and really builds up, until halfway through when everything goes down the toilet.
The beginning was intriguing. The possessed girl writes down all those numbers on the paper, which is put into a time capsule. Then, you meet the main character, Nicolas Cage, and his son. The son ends up with the paper and Nicolas Cage finds out what it means.
Things really start to build up here. You start wondering what is going to happen and how our hero is going to deal with these problems. The disasters (plane wreck, subway crash) were intense and exciting. The combination of camera work and animation enhanced it and made it look like it was happening in front of you. All the adrenaline pumping action and horror of so may people dying make you think it could get way better.
I noticed that the movie steeply declined after that. For one thing, the little boy starts hearing voices in his head, and loses his cuteness, replacing it with a possessed grimace on his face, which he has for the whole rest of the movie. All the scientific concepts and the religious concepts in the movie start flying everywhere, and they don't work well together at all. Much to my horror, it got even worse.
For some reason, we are showed many times scenes of these creepy men standing in the woods staring at the little boy's window. Continuously, they appear out of nowhere and hand the little boy shiny black rocks. The nature or purpose of the rocks are never explained or even MENTIONED. The movie takes terrible risks, and fails every time to deliver something great.
There's one particular scene where the acting and the things that happen are so ridiculous and stupid, I actually laughed. Nick Cage's character runs after one of the creepy stalkers, demanding that he leaves his son alone. They stop in a small clearing, and for no particular reason, the stalker shoots a beam of light out of his mouth at Cage and disappears. This can be described with one word: HUH?????? The disasters keep happening, you keep seeing the stalkers, and just when you think things couldn't get worse, the movie ends in the same way that destroyed the fourth Indiana Jones movie: the uninvited appearance of aliens. ALIENS????? There was no hint at all anywhere in the trailers, websites, or anything that says there were aliens in the movie. It's like the creators ran out of ideas towards the end of the script and some genius said, "I have the solution! ALIENS!" It's like if you can't come up with a good ending, just throw in some aliens and the movie will still be good. Hollywood needs to crumple that idea up and throw it into the garbage disposal. It's amazing how many movies were ruined by this poor excuse for good writing.
Anyway, the movie ends like this: The kids are kidnapped by the stalkers and the stalkers turn into shiny rip-off clones of the Silver Surfer with wings.The kids are also given big fluffy bunnies as gifts from the stalkers. They are taken away by the Silver Angel Stalkers in their giant spiky starship.
The starship took at least twenty minutes to take off. It wasn't important to the story, rather it was a display of "look what cool stuff we can do with today's technology!!" It was very irritating.
Soon after the kids and the gay shiny people FINALLY leave, Nick Cage's character goes to his parents house, when the ENTIRE WORLD is engulfed by a solar flare. What kind of ending is that where nothing is ever resolved and everybody on Earth dies?? Plus, the ending scene shows the two kids in some kind of reborn Earth running around like Adam and Eve with the Tree of Life in the background. WHAT??????? This was the most poorly writing, painful, agonizing, stupid, pointless, messed up, disgusting excuse for a major motion picture. The acting was terrible, the special effects were overdone, there was no resolution, depth, or point to this film. Do not rent this movie. Do not talk to anyone who enjoyed this movie. Hollywood, do us all a favor and take writing or directing classes, and most of all get some original ideas and some brains!!