awful

Rating: 4/10 (20 February 2011)

This one is awful. It begins from a completely unbelievable premise and gets less credible from there. It serves as a vehicle for Cage to show his single expression -- a cross between bewilderment and rage. I give it a 4 because a couple of special effects -- the plane crash and the ending in the city (which I won't give away)-- are well done. The attempts at family values are mawkish clichés. The effort to construct an allegory from fragments of Revelation that will somehow move a contemporary audience into a recognition of relevance is laughable. The directors thought that life would be re-propagated from the neo-Eden of the films' final shot, where two adorable, white bunnies are permitted to survive. That is a final insult the film lays on its helpless audience.