My son and I will watch this on weekend, we'll cancel first our time for grinding warcraft gold on WoW and make way for this film. I heard that this is great.

Good review! I saw this movie over the weekend and I'm completely speechless from it, and not in a good way. There were so many unanswered questions and unclear themes I was just speechless with question and not only depression. It's redeeming qualities certainly included the action (although that seemed in bad taste at times) and fun in the game in the first half of the film.

saw this movie last night and couldn't get to sleep after viewing it. honestly one of the worst films i have ever seen! terrible ending, special effects where just pathetic and i felt like i was seeing a movie from the early 90's. and the theory on outerspace beings begining and ending our world like some kind of game? stupid!@ please somebody tell me what role the bleeched haired speechless goons played. i really hope they never received payments for their castings.

please don't waste your time watching this film - you will never get back your 2hrs 1min.

this why always love nic cage .... best actor with a good movie!

Fantastic movie and it does take some intellectual understanding to absorb everything. It brings up intriguing questions that each can form their own opinion. Your saying that the major flaw outside of the young Chandler Canterbury is really stupid. The director tells the actor how he wants him to act and what emotions to show. For pete's sake, he just lost his mother. You were definitely wrong on this. IP

I thought it was a good movie, though the writer (and or director) had an uneven understanding of the objective. The movie would make more sense to those with some biblical background. An understanding of what is talked about in Ezekiel would do much to explain who the aliens are supposed to be and why the craft looks as it does. This was the framework by which the whole concept of "seeding" the universe was built upon. (Panspermia)
I would have liked to have seen it fleshed out a bit more. If the aliens are so intelligent, why put people on a planet that they knew was going to be deepfried? Additionally, why pick pre-pubescent children to start the new human race? It's going to be a while before they could start having kids of their own and even then, they wouldn't have the slightest idea in hell how to take care of them.

I had a dream/vision in 1999....

I was going to sleep, but the room was stuffy so before I went to sleep I opened the window. So I got in bed. When I did, a strong wind from the window, hit my dresser and the Bible that was there flug open, and the pages were tubling back and forth. I enjoyed the air, but I went back to sleep. In doing so, I heard a voice call my name. I woke up confused, and disreaged it, then went back to sleep. But the voiced kept saying my name, over and over again. The more the name was said, the louder the voices became. It got closer and closer, each time sounding more beautiful than the last time. I realized it was an angel. After her my name, I heard these loud blasts of trumpet. It actually happened several times. It was like announcing someone's arrival. So immediatley i woke up. When I did, I looked around and everything seemed NORMAL and then I ent back to sleep. As soon as I did, I heard the beautiful voice call my name, this time the voice was so close I could feel the angelic breath at my ear. She told me to get out of bed and follow the others because the lord is coming back for his people. I at first was in disbelief but the trumpets were getting louder and louder. I went to the window and I saw people outside still in their pajamas talking amongst them selves about how they got a message from an angel but no one else in the house hold heard what they heard. So I ran on the first floor to wake up my mother and brother. My brother called me crazy and I had to drag my mother out of bed, to come and look through the window. When I got to the window, the people were gone. She demanded that I stopped eating dinner so late at night, and go back to bed. I did. Of coarse, I was unable to sleep because the trumpets got louder and the voices were becoming impatient. So I got out of my bed again, and saw the same people in the streets as I did before. This time they were pointing to the sky. Something SUPERNATURAL was happening. The angel told me to LEAVE EVERYTHING BEHIND and to follow the TRUTH. As I ran downstairs I passed both my mother and brothers room. I tried to get them to come with me, I was eager! But they still couldn't see what I saw. It was useless, so I just ran. When I got outside, we all stood together, The LORD was coming from out of the clouds. The figure was on a escalator type mechanism, but it wasnt HARD like real mechanics. It was faint like a spiritual mechanism. HE was glowing. There was no face, it was an image of a man with the face of a sun. his bod was glowing, drapped in a thin cloth. He pulled his arm out and pointed it to the BOSTON HARBOR (I live in BOSTON). There was this gigantic mystical ship that was coming towards the lord. The SHIT was bigger than a mountain, there was a mist that followed it. The LORD said, LEAVE everyone and everything behind, and to get on the ship. He said that this was the end but he will save us. But we dont have much time. Many people started to run towards this boat...THERE WAS NO DOUBT that this was the LORD, there was no mistaken THE LORD. You just knew it, more than you knew what TRUTH was. Some people, couldnt deal with parting from the rest of their friends and family members, so they went back and their homes. I also went back, I desperatly wanted my family to be with me so I again attempted to wake them up. Again, I was dissapointed. They were angered and calld me crazy. So I gathered my shoes and ran as fast to the boat as possible. I ran down the hill and saw the boat as it was about to take off. I ran quicker and quicker. Faster and faster. The ship was taking off from the port and tears started to come down my eyes. I was upset, I was going to choose death over life, ignorance over truth, and hate over love. I started to weep as I was crying, asking the lord to forgive me. As I got closer to the ship, people on the ship were encouraging the rest of us dumbies to keep runnning...and I did. I almost missed the boat, but when I got close eniugh to it, a man, with a strong arm helped me get on the boat. I made it! When I was on the ship, we couldn't see what was happeneing to the earth. The mist and fog was very thick. I walked across the deck floor and realized that I didnt know anyone on the boat. I was at least looking for my Grandmother, who taught me what I knew about spirituality. I was lonely. But as I passed around a corner, I saw a very familiar face. A girl I've known since I was 5 years old. She was an athiest, the last time we spoke. I asked myself, my grandmother, a women of faith was left behind. But my old school mate was going to be with the LORD. I asked her how she got here on the ship. She told me that It was a long story, just like everyone elses. Eventually the ship levitated into the air. The Dream to follow, was not as nice.

Princess of the KING....what was the other dream about?

The dream is talking about Ezekiel's vision and John's vision (John's vision is in Revelations ) They both had the same vision.

nice, really nice!

I agree with "Julian Francis", except I wasn't speechless. I spent the next 1/2 hour muttering to myself about what kind of drugs the authour was one when they thought that an ultimate disaster movie would be nice! Forgoeing the fact that the aliens knew since the beginning of recorded history that the Earth was doomed, they conflicted both ideas of determinism and randomness! If they wanted us to come out of a theatre feeling depressed, both for the terrible ending of the movie and the cost to watch it, they succeeded admirably. And isn't it interesting how the lead character knew that a 'super solar flare' was coming, from data gained from a distant star? Couldn't these aliens have done more for the planet, say like spend the 5,000 plus years they knew it was coming to develop an EM field for the few days the flare exists? Nope, instead they spend those long centuries breeding semi-telepathic humans for transplanting to a new Garden of Eden.
Rant aside, there is no reason that the people rescued (nee 'harvested') from Earth are all the same age. It would be more likely the few hundred they saved will be from all ranges of life, and may be able to build a civilization there, keeping the thread of knowledge intact.
Two thumbs down for this sucker. Special effects do not a good plot make.

well i just watch it and i was really dissapionted in the end. i thoght the star of the show was suppose to LIVE!! and i was really confused bout those guys that took the kids. in the beginning i thoght they were bad guys and i was freakin out. then i relilze they were good. i was like REALLY!!! this moive has so much depression its not even funny. i thought i was gonna cry when the mom of abby died. and when the son had to go with out the dad i was on the very verge of cryin. TOOO MUCH DEPRESSION!!!!!! the actor, nick cage, could have done better.

dont waste your time on watching it. (unless your the kind of person who likes to watch very sad movies)

i i agree i am tired of watching movies that the bad guy wins or they make you feel that there is no hope for the good guys. this movie and alot of other movies make you go away from them feeling bad

I would like to soeak w/ the Princess of Kings. My name is Knowledge. I have signs from GOD my intire life. I thought it was because my family are in the church, deep. I believe in GOD to the fullest; but, I believe in GOD differently. There is another thruth out there that people people do not see because they sre satisfied w/the siplest answer. I have had an experience that is simular to this movie. I wigged out when i saw this movie. I believe that people like us need to network. i will share my story to you either by e-mail or phone. I thought that i was suppost to share my story w/others, but in my future their where only surten people that where aloud to go. They are more about spiritallity, and being a certin type of person. If you read this or others that will know what I am speaking about then please contact me at this site and i will check it.

I would like to speak w/ the Princess of Kings. My name is Knowledge. I have had signs from GOD my intire life. I thought it was because my family are in the church, deep. I believe in GOD to the fullest; but, I believe in GOD differently. There is another thruth out there that people do not see because they are satisfied w/the siplest answer. I have had an experience that is simular to this movie. I wigged out when i saw this movie. I believe that people like us need to network. I will share my story to you either by e-mail or phone. I thought that i was suppost to share my story w/others, but in my future their where only certin people that where aloud to go. They are more about spiritallity, and being a certin type of person. If you read this or others that will know what I am speaking about then please contact me at this site and i will check it.

As a great science fiction fan for 45 years, I can truly say that this screenplay/movie was one of the most futile attempts at trying to possess deep and important meaning I have ever witnessed. The writers grasped at every post 9/11 terrorist fear, far-out "Rapture" cultist's "left behind" theory, Biblical apocalyptic misinterpretation and sappy parent/child moment and, well,...I still just didn't care.
If the spooky angels, 4 horsemen, 4 headed Biblical creatures, aliens or whatever, knew how to get the kids whenever and wherever they wanted, to where were all the expositions, stones, and numbers of prophecy from the time capsule supposed to lead? A big waste of my time I suppose.
Special effects don't make a great movie for me, there has to be a great story, and this jumble was sadly lacking.
The only thing I came away "knowing" for sure is that those two hours of my life were not well spent.
ps. Dear "Knowledge",
It's "entire", "truth", "simplest", "similar", "supposed", "there", "certain", "were allowed", "spirituality".

This is one of the best movies I have ever seen I give it 10/10 it was that good, it keeps you at the edge of your seat all the way through. If you love disaster movies this is one for you. I know I will be to add it to my collection!!!

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