First Rate Apocalyptic Thriller!

Rating: 8/10 (15 April 2009)

I'd been meaning to go see this movie but just got around to last night and I was glad I did, because this movie rocks! It started off slow but once the central premise of the story became clear, it was actually very fast paced and spellbinding. It's axiomatic in show business to finish strong, and this movie does that in a very big way.
The strength of the movie is in the storyline, plot, and climax. The acting was good, but the dialog was at times amateurish and could have been improved with some minor editing. But that's mere quibbling with what was overall a very good thriller with a spectacular ending.
The central premise of the movie is in 1959, a troubled young girl writes a cryptic page of seemingly random numbers, to be buried in a time capsule (as part of an elementary school project) and re-opened in 2009. Flash forward to 2009 and the time capsule is unsealed and the letters randomly distributed to the current generation of students, with the letter written by the young girl given to Nick Cage's son. Cage, a college professor, decodes the letter's meaning, and finds it to be a prophecy of major disasters, including the apocalypse.
An excellent movie, well worth checking out.