Know-Nothing

Rating: 5/10 (26 December 2010)

This might have been a good movie a one point, but it didn't turn out that way. Plausibility is nice, even is Science Fiction. In order for a plat to have viability, there must be a logical progression. Up to a point, there was. But then we discovered that the sum of all efforts in this movie is Zed...Nada... Zilch. Cage can run around tracking upcoming disasters all he wants but it just doesn't matter. In the grand scheme of things, he too is a Zero. If he had stayed at home brooding about the unfortunate death of his wife, drinking and watched the news, the result would have been the same: The Mysterioso Men would have whisked his son and the heroine's child off in their flying artichoke and everyone on Earth would have still become crispy critters. That's just too much for me. If all is foreordained no matter what you do, then don't bother. Watching someone in this exercise of utter futility is not entertaining, at least for me. Camera work and special effects were good. Cage was Cage- a Shakespearean actor hopeful who talks to an imaginary Horatio, even when asking for directions. I gave it a five because they tried. Anything higher would imply they succeeded.