You can tell there were 3 screenwriters

Rating: 5/10 (2 November 2012)

It's as if the 3 screenwriters credited with this film sat down and said "I'll write the beginning, you write the middle and you write the end and we'll see if we can match it up later." Well, I can tell you, it didn't match up. This movie started out promising. The whole time capsule thing with the little girl's list caught my interest and I wanted to know more. 50 years later they open the time capsule and we find the list was actually a list of predictions that have come true throughout those 50 years. Okay - I'm with the movie so far and can't wait to see what will happen next. Then the middle writer takes over and it gets a little lost (not a lot, just a little). We introduce this rock thing that was never explained and Nicolas Cage acts like - well every Nicolas Cage movie. The story does move along though and I'm still interested. That is, until the 3rd writer takes over and does the last 1/3 of the movie. At some point I just watched it because I knew I was near the end and I was hoping they would write themselves out of a mess. The introduction of the little girl and mother was almost a waste of time - they didn't move the plot anywhere and the mom annoyed me. Now, I don't always have to have a "happy" ending, but I do need an ending that makes some sense. I mean, why in the world do you even have predictions if in the end everything is totally pointless. I gave this 5 out of 10 stars only because of the great start to this film.