Left me confused

Rating: 5/10 (2 April 2009)

An odd film this one, not at all what I expected. Having enjoyed National Treasure I was expecting some kind of puzzle-solving Nick Cage adventure, which it sort of was, but. . . I didn't understand it.
I'm not going to complain about the religious message, I can live with it if that's what they want to do. All in all I sat through the whole film and quite enjoyed it for the most part. I just didn't understand what message it was trying give me.
The list of disasters didn't seem to achieve anything, when it appeared to be the central premise of the film. I didn't follow what the aliens were trying to achieve with that apart from being prophets of doom. I can accept that aliens or angels may not think the same way we do, but in the end they could have (and did) just show up at the end and rescue their chosen few. The cryptic warning didn't help anyone.
Perhaps the message was, as the science lecture suggested, that everything is predetermined and our actions don't really matter. In that sense it is a Simpsons ending: Lisa: Perhaps there is no moral to this story. Homer: Exactly! It's just a bunch of stuff that happened.