my goodness and where to begin . let just begin at the beginning . there be go to be some spoiler in this one a it be necessary to make a point . a friend of mine tell me this be one of the most mind blowing movie he have ever see . he be correct . that someone free $ 50 and 000 and 000 of cold hard cash to make this cut and paste drivel definitely blow my friggin mind . i do not have high expectation for this movie and hadn not even plan on see it and but i hold out a little hope because i love dark city so much . those meager hope be dash against the rock . let start with the first contrivance of a distant introverted young girl and lucinda and in 1959 who hear voice . it her idea ( we learn through awkward exposition and exposition that sadly never learn to walk ) that her elementary school drop a time capsule into the ground to be excavate 50 year into the future . the child be assign to draw what they think the future will look like and the art to be place within the capsule . lucinda furiously scribble a series of number on her paper . it be put into the capsule . fast forward 50 year . october 2009. heat wave . indian summer . nicholas cage be show his son some cosmic formation in his telescope . without warn his son admonish him for never listen and forget school event and and generally be a neglectful father . while this be do through more awkward exposition and what be more maddening be that cage spend the entire movie be an almost overbearingly dot father and rush to event and forgo outing with friend and potential blind date that would replace be dead wife . one would think that perhaps he be turn over a new leaf after 5 minute and but his best friend inform u this be not the case . cage be an mit professor and though we never learn what type we can only assume astrophysics . we only see him teach one class . and what would a professor and inhabit an acclaimed technical college and in a classroom surround by equation on a chalkboard and image of celestial body and and a model of the solar system assign for his student at the end of the class . write a paper on determinism v randomness . do life have meaning . in a physics class . naturally and his son be sing at the event to open the time capsule . naturally and he receive lucinda paper fill with indecipherable number . naturally and he bring it home when he not suppose to . naturally and cage see it . he send his son to bed and in a inexplicable drunken rage deciphers most of the number and start with the first number and pick at random represent 911012889. in two second he discover that it mean 9/11/01 and the number who perish . baffle and enrage he spend all night find the date and casualty of major human tragedy and google them for confirmation . we would not mention that casualty estimate often very by source and more so for natural disaster and large number . he verify every major tragedy for 50 year on this paper and include the event where his wife die . except there be 3 event that have yet to occur . what do an astrophysicist do with this info . take it to his friend who predictable tell him in copy and paste dialogue how crazy this all sound and he take his wife death too hard . and what do the rest of the number mean . after half a glass of whisky he find the first date from the first set of number he look at and after a whole bottle and a sleepless night he find the rest and but it take his truck gps product placement ad to find out the rest of the number be latitudinal and longitudinal coordinate . naturally and he be at the location of the next accident just a he discover this and a hideous plane crash complete with passenger run around cover in jet fuel and fire . this be where the audience laughter begin . it never stop . the dialogue be maddeningly formulaic and awkward and and uninspired . the act range from sub par to excruciate . the story be as predictable a wednesday meatloaf . when cage son and who can hear the voice and start write down more number and even after the final revelation and cage dismiss it a his son impetuousness . the whole event be a contrived plot device . one wonder why he be estrange from his father and a pastor and and family . one wonder why he doesn not take his discovery to the other mit scientist . one wonder why he feel the press need to run headlong towards the disaster he know will happen and only to be save by dumb luck . one wonder whether anyone involve in the making of this film have ever be to mit for long than the time it take to create b roll or have ever stand on a new york city subway platform . i would not even mention the sci fi allusion to the christian concept of rapture . in the end this movie be a spectacular disappointment . it be a fun concept amateurishly execute on every conceivable level .