Cage's character summed up the movie when he said "There's no purpose.".

Rating: 2/10 (29 August 2011)

I'll start by saying this could have been a good movie; even an excellent one, but the execution was downright awful. The first 90% of the movie was an absolute waste and it would have been more integral to the ending if the main characters had just sat out in the front lawn the entire time watching the grass grow. It seems the entire purpose of the predictive numbers was to get the kids to those coordinates at a certain time. Although, even that didn't matter because the aliens intervened and did it themselves anyway. It would have made a lot more sense for the aliens to do nothing since the parents wouldn't have suspected anything that way and said aliens wouldn't have had to engage in a car chase. The point is, I have a difficult time seeing the good in a movie that unravels itself completely in the last 10 minutes. It's lazy and a borderline dues ex machina.