wtf?

Rating: 5/10 (16 July 2009)

**Spoilers Spoilers** Really? The Garden of Eden? Really? I may have to rent Blue Lagoon now, because that's what I was thinking during that final scene, and it's hard to believe that's what the filmmakers were going for!
I gave this five stars because the first half was great - gripping, touching, intriguing. But what were they thinking? The last 30 minutes were not worthy of the rest of the movie. It's like they just wanted to make a movie with some awesome action scenes so they had to shoehorn a bunch of plot about time capsules and predicting disasters/the future that have absolutely nothing to do with where this movie is eventually going.
Every single idea in this movie, whether about the end of the world or the loss of a parent/beloved spouse or even seeing the future, have been done before, and done much better. Toward the end, I found myself thinking a lot about Signs, which has some similar themes about faith and loss, etc, and it even has similar looking aliens.
I would love someone to take the first half of this movie and give it the denouement that it deserves. Of course, watching John drive through Manhattan just before the world ends, and seeing people loot the NY Public Library, you feel like the human race gets what we had coming to us.
Not a waste of two hours, but damn close to it. Nick, really dude, you made Birdy and Cotton Club. Get a grip on yourself.