What a mess

Rating: 2/10 (1 May 2009)

The trailers for this movie really grabbed my attention. And for the first half of the movie, I was getting what I had hoped for. A neat sci-fi story about a prediction for the future placed in a time capsule 50 yrs earlier. Despite my inability to take Nick Cage seriously (honestly, how does someone who starred in Ghost Rider still have a career in acting?), the process of figuring out the code, what it meant, and how it came to be was intriguing. HOWEVER. And that is probably the biggest 'however' I've ever used... this movie takes a turn for the worst about halfway through. It seems like the writers had ideas for several different movies, and decided to cram them all into one. It becomes so disjointed and turns into an episode of the Outer Limits on acid. Enter aliens, UFOs, and the "chosen ones". I think I'm most disappointed because the trailers were so intriguing, and the plot had so much potential. Somebody dropped the ball on this one...