Pointless, awful story.

Rating: 2/10 (11 April 2014)

Films like this really sadden me. They could have built a dozen schools in Africa with the money they spent on this, and, saved everyone who watched it over 2 hours of their lives.
Nick Cage is supposed to be a Professor of Physics but spends the entire movie without displaying any kind of scientific thinking. There are lots of derivative plot lines involving number sequences channeled through children by aliens, attempts to reconcile science and faith, fatalism and free-will.
For some reason, aliens decide to use a child to provide a cryptic clue, that is buried for 50 years, then dug up 3 days before then end of the world is nigh. Why? Why does it have to be buried for 50 years, what purpose do these 'prophecies' serve? All that happens is that Cage fails to avert 2 disasters, and is able to cause global panic when he realises an apocalyse is pending. Nothing Cage's character, or any other character for that matter does throughout the whole movie has any impact whatsoever on the outcome. Despite their parents actions, the children are saved, and the Earth dies.
Avoid this movie if you have any self esteem.