Apparently Knowing... Isn't Everything...

Rating: 7/10 (27 March 2009)

When I saw this movie, I really liked the first hour and a half... but then it happened... IT ENDED... HORRIBLY... The movie was good, visually, and even had a decent plot to it until the end. I'm sorry but it seemed stupid to me... Not the part about the world ending, that would have been fine. I don't see the point in the children being whisked off in a new age Noah's Ark of sorts, by some "aliens" that look like they belong as extras in Valkyrie. I suppose that they wanted to save the children's lives so they wouldn't receive bad reviews for killing kids. I tried to think of it as maybe the Christian faith, where people are Left Behind and the children are saved but that doesn't really seem feasible, the movie has a religious undertone anyway and if they were going to make it seem as if the children were being saved by God then all believers should have been saved as well.... Also... There were MANY children in the theater when I saw this movie on opening day. I am sure that many parents were as surprised as I was to find the movie with such graphic imagery. Personally I liked it in the movie, but I can understand where some people would find it not suitable for younger children. I think they could have gone with an R rating. Overall I liked the movie, the ending could have been written better. I would recommend seeing it, but only if you go to an early bird showing (such as I did) or rent it... basically, don't pay over $5.50 to watch it.