Boooooooooo! BOOOOOOOOOO!
I saw the previews and got all excited. Neat ideas: prophecies, codes, disasters - they could really do some great stuff with this, I thought. Or, alternatively, they could write a terrible story, cast Nicolas Cage as an MIT professor, and turn the whole thing into a ridiculous religious story. Ugh.
It's not often that I walk out of a movie feeling personally intellectually insulted, but I sure did tonight. Boo. [Spoiler alert!] Here's an example of one subplot, paraphrased. Nicolas Cage: "I'm an atheist because I'm bitter about my wife's death. But now there's this piece of paper telling the future, so I'm rethinking all that. And hey, turns out aliens did it, so now I believe in God again! Phew, feels better not being an atheist anymore." WHAT?!? The rest of the plot didn't fare much better.
Slightly redeeming feature: the effects were cool. But I think I heard somewhere that you might just need more than effects, say, an actual STORY to make a good movie. Crazy notion, but maybe one movie companies should be investigating a little more.
All in all, I want my money back. Booooooooooo.
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