Starring Nicolas Cage as an obsessed teacher who believes he has found a document which foretold many tragedies, and holds the time and place of future disasters.
Cage plays John Koestler, a clever science teacher, who recently lost his wife. John has a son Caleb, whose school fifty years ago placed a time capsule into the ground, containing numerous drawings by the students, who were asked to draw what they thought the future might look like. While the majority of students drew rocket ships and robots, one peculiar child drew a long list of numbers, that, at first glance, appear to be random.
However, this drawing, in the hands of John, became a code for every significant disaster that had happened in the last fifty years, along with three that had not happened…yet. The numbers also contained the amount of people who have/will die.
Now it is a race against time, as John attempts to cheat fate, and avoid the inevitable.
An exciting film during the first half, it had all the best aspects that disaster/sci-fi films have to offer: an interesting lead character with a moody back story, a mysterious plot, and a tense race against time. However, as the film moved into the second half, it kind of fell apart. Rather than drumming up a logical explanation for the child’s predictions, they went into the realm of fantasy and make believe.
This awkward combination of multiple genres was not comfortable to watch, and the ending is particularly poor, which is unfortunate, as the film had potential.
Cage is decent as the lead, and some of the special effects are amazing: in particular (spoiler alert) a plane crash scene, but overall I lacked depth and effort.
One of those films I am glad I have seen, because I know I’m not missing out on anything special.
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