the ending... why not leave it out?

Rating: 4/10 (17 April 2009)

This film would be FANTASTIC... if they managed to cut out all the whisper people, change the ending, and for god's sake FIX SOME OF THE Plot holes!
SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!! !SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!! !SPOILERS!! !SPOILERS!! !SPOILERS!! !SPOILERS!!!
The movie was fine for the first half, if you ignore the whisper people/aliens/angels. Good special effects, the acting was fine and it posed a lot of nice questions, such as where did the numbers come from? What happens when they run out? What the hell does Cage's character have to do with them?
It was fine at that point. Then they dropped that script and had the kids become freaky and hear the whisper people, and they drove around a lot. It was still fine, if a bit boring, and it promised to pick up again.
And THEN!!!! They dropped that script and threw in some aliens!! I was anticipating a nice ending to the movie, and then i saw the freaking SPACESHIP!!! The movie should have ended there, with them leaving. I guess the apocalypse scene wasn't too bad, aside from some terrible emotionless acting. But then they had to bring the kids back on some ridiculous planet, where they run off happily hand in hand towards some stupid TREE!! I mean, you wouldn't think they'd survive for much longer anyway, seeing as the aliens (with wings) just dropped them off there. Maybe they can eat the rabbits.
Plot holes... undeveloped ideas... there were a few. Let's list some.
The stupid black pebbles turned out to be nothing. The boy was writing another list of numbers. What was that all about??? How do the aliens/angels know whats going to happen? Why didn't the aliens take more people? such as a significant portion of the human race? It's not like they wouldn't have fit on the gazillions of spaceships you saw leaving earth. What were the numbers even for? Cage couldn't change the events at all, even save more people than what was listed. It's like he was just along for the ride, and as an excuse to add some cool special effects. I could rant on for another few paragraphs about it, but i'll just leave it.
This movie had potential. They should take the overall concept (numbers predicting events) and make a whole new movie, which will PLEASE steer away from sci-fi!
Good concept, terribly executed.