I wouldn’t waste the money on going to this movie in the theatre but it *may* be rentable if you are using an offer like Netflix; if not then I wouldn’t bother with the movie until it comes out on HBO or Showtime. I heard that the critics rated it poorly and I don’t normally put much stock in what the critics have to say but this time I would listen to them.
The movie seems to be disjointed in that there is no explanation of how things are happening to the characters despite some paper that prophecied the great tradegies of the world by date, number of people dead, and coordinates. So the gist of the rest movie is Man is trying to figure out the great mystery behind said paper while protecting his son from these “strange” people that appear in the movie. Oh, he is also trying to protect his son from knowing about the tragedies as if the boy has never known about tragedies before. A bunch of disjointed plot later and the great reveal about what is going to happen and with all the weird prophecy stuff that was on this paper the man is still trying to treat these “strange” people that keep popping up as normal as if a gun was going to be helpful. Maybe Hollywood was trying to suggest that it is true in the fact of the strange and unexplained people try to rationalize everything!
I would say that half-way through the movie I had already determined what two possibilities the “strange” people were and let us just say that I was right, I think. Yeah, it is that confusing.
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I liked the Special Effects at the end. How people deal with a doomsday situation has always fascinated me. Tragic end brings the worst and best out of people.
As far as giving a review on this film, I would not go into this movie looking for a life changing experience. Instead, go in for entertainment sake. The movies next week don't appear to be all that entertaining, so you might give this one a look.