You'd save yourself $10 if you just let your Sunday School teacher explain the Rapture to you....

Rating: 2/10 (14 October 2009)

Right up until about the last 20 minutes, this film was barely acceptable as a ham-handed, badly acted, B-level thriller. At that point, however, it switched gears and revealed itself as a smarmy little allegory straight out of Revelations. It's the Rapture, stupid. In short: the earth is about to be destroyed by fire, the whole thing was predicted by the prophet Ezekiel, only those who are "chosen" and who "hear the voices of the angels" can be saved, and all the good children are carried off by aliens to serve as miniature Adams and Eves (along w/assorted animals) and repopulate another planet. What garbage. (Who wrote this nonsense? Tim LaHaye?) It's not even worth the time to get started on the long list of logical blunders and continuity errors in this film, though the scene at the "end of the world" when Cage manages to drive calmly through the streets of Manhattan while hundreds of thousands of people are looting and screaming and running around in sheer panic – well, it's just priceless, is what it is. (Personal to Nicholas Cage's handlers: Cut the man's hair or buy him a better wig! His plugs are showing and have been since long before National Treasure.)