The film kicks off with a small elementary school making a time capsule that is to be opened 50 years later. Each kid from a certain class draws what they think the future will look like in the year 2009. A strange girl, instead of drawing a pretty picture of rockets and flying cars, draws an endless row of numbers that seem to be gibberish, but of course they’re not.

Fast-forward 50 years and the time capsule is being opened by Nicolas Cage’s son and fellow class. Of course Nicolas Cage ends up with this sheet of paper and begins to understand its meaning as events unravel. That was to be expected and isn’t why I was pleasantly surprised. The film takes a swing at the question “why are we here,” and it does it with style. As the film develops it drops easter eggs here and there relating to religion. I wasn’t really sure where it was going, I just knew I didn’t want it to end like Indy 4 and have aliens all over the place.

I, of course, was wrong and that’s pretty much what happens. But what it does along with that is to take many of the founding ideas of religion and give them a more-or-less “scientific” explanation; angels, Adam & Eve, God. It makes the point that thousands of years ago humans were too naive to understand certain phenomena they witnessed. We simply hadn’t evolved enough, and with a strange game of telephone over the last few thousand years, the events that took place back then became deified.

Again, this is by far not Nicolas Cage’s masterpiece, but it is worthy of your attention. Regardless of the fact that we have to make-believe that Nick Cage is a professor at MIT, I was still wondering what would happen next at every moment. It’s not as cheap of an attempt to draw an audience an many of his latest endeavors.

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