This movie was pointless....to the point of "wtf??" since the ending had absolutely nothing to do with the entire preceding film...I can suspend a lot of belief and yes, I am looking forward to May 10th, however, to have me believe that the end of the world is coming, and shape-shifting aliens/angels in mammoth spacecrafts are going to wait till literally the DAY of the end of the world (October 19th, not December 12th for those paying attention) and then only take "children" because....well, just because...seems like the thing to do...and how do they do this? By starting 50 years earlier appearing as a German rock band and whispering to children (scaring the pa-tooties out of them at the same time)....now the main plot was this girl has predicted every major disaster in the last 50 years...and Nick Cage's (who just happens to be a professor of....something to do with randomness) son just "happens" to get the letter the predictions are written on....(yes, how random is that)...and then Nick figures it out after he randomly sets his whisky glass on it just after he randomly fills it to the point of spilling it. The ring of liquid just happens to circle 9/11/01 2996...which gives the Eureka moment....he then proceeds to figure out the rest of the dates, minus the last three....cause they haven't happened.... queue an amazingly awesome plane crash....disaster #3..two to go queue an amazingly awesome worth the price of admission subway crash...disaster #2....one to go they get the idea this last one will happen to everyone, yes, it is an ELE (<--thank you Morgan Freeman) now, here comes the twist... the predictions were given to children to see which were able to "listen" to the angels (???)...not they could DO anything about the disasters...they were going to happen no matter what...and trying to stop them would only make them seem responsible for them, since they had prior knowledge....so that ENTIRE plot line was pointless...since they could just whisper once...the kid gets it....on to the spaceship.... okay, so end of the world, last day....aliens come down, they apparently need our cars to move around in (??? they have space craft, they are shape changers, and they need our cars???) and they get a lucky break when Diana (the mom) leaves her keys in the car to fill up her tank at a petrol station....(who the hell does that???)..she walks away...they jump in and steal the kids....in her car...with her keys...they are interstellar shape changing aliens now promoted to car-jackers.... okay, so they get to the spot where the alien space craft is going to land and tell the dad "you can't go..."...seems like a big enough space ship to me....I have a Kia Carnival and I can fit 2 extra kids and a dad in it....they have a SPACE SHIP and they are like "uh, no, not you...prepare to die" and they leave....with the kids.... queue awesome end of the earth sequence that makes everything before it look silly the end fade in kids are prancing about on an alien world underneath a big tree...preparing to start the human race over again....assuming these kids find food, and shelter...and live long enough to reproduce....
okay, yeah, ....
so why didn't the aliens just grab the kids anytime in the last 50 years and say "let's go!"
so why did they bother telling anyone about disasters they couldn't stop...leading them to think they were insane and committing suicide?
why did they need our cars again?
why did the parents leave the kids alone in the car TWICE after realizing that the kids, and not the parents, were the ones being stalked?
how the hell did Nick's phone work AFTER the entire mobile phone network went offline?
Why send the information at all?
If they could shape shift, could they pick anything nicer than angry looking blonde albinos in matrix like coats?
Where did Rose Byrne get the black nightie?
Why didn't Nick Cage just tell Rose Byrne what was going on the entire drive from the school to his place instead of letting her freak out? What did they talk about on the ten minute ride?
Why would Nick Cage go TO the exact spot he KNEW 182 people were going to die? (That's so Cloverfield)
Yeah, no, nice try but this was rushed and spotty and had no consistency....
okay, yeah, ....
so why didn't the aliens just grab the kids anytime in the last 50 years and say "let's go!"
so why did they bother telling anyone about disasters they couldn't stop...leading them to think they were insane and committing suicide?
why did they need our cars again?
why did the parents leave the kids alone in the car TWICE after realizing that the kids, and not the parents, were the ones being stalked?
how the hell did Nick's phone work AFTER the entire mobile phone network went offline?
Why send the information at all?
If they could shape shift, could they pick anything nicer than angry looking blonde albinos in matrix like coats?
Where did Rose Byrne get the black nightie?
Why didn't Nick Cage just tell Rose Byrne what was going on the entire drive from the school to his place instead of letting her freak out? What did they talk about on the ten minute ride?
Why would Nick Cage go TO the exact spot he KNEW 182 people were going to die? (That's so Cloverfield)
Yeah, no, nice try but this was rushed and spotty and had no consistency....