starts with interest but ends with wtf

Rating: 4/10 (25 July 2016)

It's 1959 Lexington, Massachusetts. The local school is burying a time capsule. Student Lucinda Embry is a troubled loner hearing voices and her teacher Miss Taylor finds her trapped in a closet. It's 50 years later. Caleb Koestler needs a hearing aid. His class is opening the time capsule. Caleb is given Lucinda's letter which is a long string of numbers. His father John (Nicolas Cage) is an MIT Astrophysics professor. He starts making sense of the numbers. First, it's 9/11 and 2996 deaths. He matches every numbers with disasters except three still pending mass deaths. His wife Allison was part of one of the past disasters. He's there for the next disaster and figures out the location coordinates in the numbers. He becomes obsessed and tracks down Lucinda's daughter Diana (Rose Byrne). Throughout, there are mysterious strangers haunting Caleb.
The start has an intriguing premise. It's on track to be an interesting moody horror. It adds on some big CGI action sets. Once the mystery of the numbers is solved, the story loses its intensity. The ultimate ending requires much more foreshadowing. This needs to chop off the ending and tweak it to something less convoluted. If it wants that ending, it should be more than strange white-haired guys leaving wish pebbles.