I think a lot of folks don't understand the point of the #'s

Rating: 7/10 (11 July 2009)

The point of him getting the numbers is not to save the world or even save lives (sans his son's). The point of him getting the numbers was to ensure he would believe the prophecy by showing him validity of the predictions with proof of past events so he would make sure his son was at the right place at the right time. I don't understand why people are having a hard time understanding this. If he was meant to save people why would the number of victims be listed with each disaster? I think it would have to be a little more open ended by not listing the number of dead to allow for him to save lives. The deaths were set in stone and nothing he could do would change that. Get it?7 Also everyone that is questioning the way the aliens communicated whether it was by voices or by the stones is being kind of silly. How do we know how an advanced alien life form may try to communicate with us? As for everything else, every time I see a Cage movie since the amazing "Raising Arizona" I dislike him a little bit more. Everything is so forced with him, in fact I don't think any of the acting was very good in this. Other things in the movie irritated me as well. The scene when they were going to the museum they pulled into the garage of a hotel/mall (I actually remember when it was built as I grew up a literal 3 streets over) and there is no museum such as the one shown in the movie in Boston. I usually love it when the show my home town in movies and they did an okay job with it, but not great. I also think Cage's character did a lot of wasting time in the film. For example: when he calls his estrange father. Why do it in the yard when you could be doing it from the road? If you know for a fact that there isn't much time left don't you think you would be using it a little more wisely? There were a lot of religious undertones but that is to be expected in a move depicting the apocalypse, why people are surprised or offended by this is beyond me. As disturbing as the final outcome of the planet was, I applaud the makers for not sugar coating it with some unrealistic solution to the flares.