If only I'd known

Rating: 3/10 (13 April 2009)

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I briefly checked out what this movie was about before going to see it and expected a sci-fi/mystery thriller with a heavy dose of M. Night Shyamalan thrown into the mix. What I got was a semi-religious sci-fi/horror flick where everyone on Earth, bar a few children, die horribly. I kid you not!
Others will describe the plot in more detail but basically Nick Cage's son gets a letter from a school time capsule with numbers in it that when transcribed details the date, location and the number of dead of specific disasters (past and future). Nick Cage goes about trying to resolve it while weird looking men (aliens/angels) whisper the truth to his kid and it all turns out there's a sun flare that's going to toast the earth. The angels are there to save a few good children.
The special effects of the plane crash and some early parts showed this film had potential but the ending where the aliens/angels take the kids to the new world and Nick and his parents/sister group hug while they're engulfed in a global BBQ was just so off the scale that I just laughed.
My sister walked out half-way through the film and I thought that was the best move all night.