Knowing what I do now, I wish I hadn't bothered!

Rating: 6/10 (4 May 2009)

John koestler and his son Caleb live alone, and when a time capsule is opened at his son's school with a load of random numbers written fifty years ago appears, it seems to be little more than a load of gobble-de-gook! However, after spotting a pattern within the numbers, John begins to investigate and finds a correlation between global disasters, their locations and death tolls and tries to prevent the next series of events.
On entering the cinema to watch this I had high hopes. Alex Proyas was responsible for the excellent "Dark City", and although the first half hour was hideously slow, once you witness these disasters (And believe me, you really feel like your witnessing these disasters) you are really drawn into the story, and as John sets out to prevent further disaster from looming the story picks up, the pace draws you in and you're really taken on for the ride. Personally I was loving it and really getting into it ...right up until the point were it ended, when the response "What the hell" sprung to mind.
The ending feels like a massive advert for Scientology and I almost expected to see the names John Travolta and Tom Cruise come up as executive producers. The ending of the film was such a let down as the children of earth, who know nothing of farming, agriculture or balanced diets are dumped on another world with little chance of supporting themselves, as the film progressively runs out of steam and comes crashing down with no way of redeeming itself, like the humanity in the film.
It's a shame really as about twenty minutes before the end, it was progressing quite nicely. Shame they seem to have gotten stuck for an ending when the writing strike was in full swing.
Nuff said.