Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (5 October 2009)

From the director of Dark City and The Crow, two very original and stylistic films, comes this lacklustre thriller that fails to involve, intrigue or interest an audience.
The plot involves Nicholas Cage gaining the ability to calculate the dates and locations of tragic events, all of which happen quite conveniently within driving distance. These disasters are visually appealing on an exploitative level primarily because they involve mass destruction and a large loss of life.
What kills the film in my opinion are bland characters, which make it hard to care about the potential destruction of the earths population because there is no emotional investment. Nicholas Cage is just going through the motions, Rose Byrne lacks any character traits and merely flitters into the film almost unnoticed.
And the "climax" of the film. Utter tripe. Pretensious, overbearing nonsense that hammers in a message of rebirth so predictable and contrived it deflates the rest of the film.
Some nice elements,a hint of Twilight Zone, but let down by lacklustre characters and a complete fart of an ending.