Plot - meet holes. Holes - meet plot

Rating: 6/10 (6 May 2009)

How would one go through life is one would know what would be happening next? It's a question that is silently posed in this film but it's never really answered. It all starts when a young kid, upon being asked to make a drawing to store in a time-capsule does not draw a picture but writes down what seems to be random numbers instead. When years after the time-capsule is opened again the paper with the numbers comes into the hands of a father and his child and the father starts to stare at the numbers, attempting to find a pattern or meaning in them. What he finds scares him more than anything has ever scared him before.
This film starts by making one big claim. If one can accept that claim to be truth it turns the film in a pretty standard but OK film with a fun but plot-holed filled story. If one can not accept that claim the film quickly turns into a long series of irritations. It plays out fairly decently, building on the initial claim and adding more twists to it, eventually digging its own grave a bit because it contradicts itself a few times. It doesn't completely run out of air though and in the end its OK enough to have people leave the cinema without being completely bummed out.
6 out of 10 random numbers in a stream