50 years ago a crazy little girl who hears voices wrote down a long list of numbers and placed them in a time capsule.
Present day, and the capsule is dug up, the numbers are looked at and it turns out they've predicted the dates and numbers of people dead in every major disaster since the time of writing... including 3 events that haven't happened yet...
Early on in the film, Nicholas Cage sets the sceen for the main debate, destiny vs randomness. He actually discusses the topic in a lecture he's giving, which must be one of the shortest lectures ever. Seriously, are lectures in America really that short? They never seem longer than 5 minutes in any films...
The film never really delivers a suitable answer to anything. Clearly favouring the destiny arguement from the use of the predicitions, it still comes across very random. The entire film is a rather large question mark. Themes are jumbled up in an ad hoc fashion. Christian ideas are presented throughout, enough to annoy any hardcore Non-Christians as well as any Christians, since they mostly presented completely out of context. The ending in particular will probably make only a very narrow band of people happy.
The main concept is interesting, but not anything original.
