Steineded How sad is this?

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

jonsjunk-2 Great premise of a small-time magician who can see slightly into the future who gets dragged into a plot to prevent the detonation of a nuke. Starts strong with great, clever action and intelligent dialog particularly from Julianne Moore. Cage plays it mostly straight, not too over the top, to good effect. The whole thing is undone with a super cringey, unlikely and unnecessary romance featuring Jessica Biel. The chemistry is about as good as a 10 foot pile of sneezing powder and a leaf blower. Not to mention, Moore comes off far more attractive than the one-dimensional plot-filler Biel. Meanwhile, what exactly Cage's future-seeing powers will do to stop the nuke still isn't even revealed by the midpoint of the film, seemingly saving up a big twist that never really comes. Like so many Cage films you want to grab the screenwriter and smack him around a bit for having so much potential but then throwing it in the crapper. Oh well. I watched until the end but fans of Nic Cage and Julianne Moore will get value out of this one.

merceplucas Until now, I had never seen a movie with an ending that made me get up from the couch and shout "NO, NO WAY" with the most anger a movie has given me, but here I am. The movie's plot is a winding road of nonsense, the characters are strange and the music is generic. Nicolas Cage's acting as usual is stellar but not for the reasons you'd expect, he's goofy and dumb and we all love watching him do stupid stuff. The way the cinematography incorporates his looks into the future is actually really cool, showing the camera pan slowly as he gets up and tries to talk to someone, failing, then the camera pans back to find him still sitting down thinking the situation over. They did a good job of implementing his ability. You can tell the movie doesn't take itself too seriously and just wants to have dumb fun. Probably the most entertaining Nic Cage movie I've seen. Give it a shot.

nilen-51573 Having this concept in a movie where a person can se abit into the future and therfore should be able to get the best possiable outcome, at least in the short run makes me question everything he does in the movie and think that there must have been a better choice. When you think about it he should be able to crack any code or answer any question even if he dont know the answer. He just ses what random noise gives the answer. Several times during the movie I though that he must have seen a better future in a different action that the one he just did. Like the time in the casino where he just clumsy pushed the robber, or in the attack at the end where he let several agents die where he must have been able to get them to survive. This thinking got me to not be able to fully enjoy the movie. Then we have the leader of the agency who is searching for the bomb who just happens to se his fancy work in the casino and instantly thinks that he can read the future and puts all resources into finding him because he "definitely" is the key to finding the bomb. I am surprised that anyone listens to her and that she can keep her job.

Neddy Merrill To the pantheon of limited practical use superpowers which includes semi-luminaries such as Aquaman, Robin, Hawkeye, Antman, etc., add Nic Cage's Chris Johnson / Frank Cadillac character. The small-time magician can see 120 seconds (give or take) into his own personal future. So could he find his car in the mall parking lot if he didn't remember where he left it? No, he has to be able to find it in the future to see himself finding it in the present looking forward. Would he have known the twist at the end of "Sixth Sense"? No, that take far more than 2 minutes to happen. Could he avoid burning the roast? No, since it take 2 hours at 425 degrees for the roast to burn, he wouldn't be able to detect that. Apparently, his second sight also can be a little fritz-y like when he needs to be told the bridge has washed out and he will need to return to a hotel 2 miles back - shouldn't he have seen that coming? So why does Julianne Moore's hard-as-nails FBI agent strap him "Clockwork Orange" style to a chair to try to predic when a nuclear bomb devastates Los Angeles and ushers in the era of Skynet? Um....not sure. At best Frank / Chris could only give them a 1 minute 55 second head start to tracking down a bomb, gaining entry to it and defusing it somewhere in LA's 5,721 square miles of traffic-clogged streets. Cage gives his Hello Kitty neutral performance but Moore belies some puzzlement over the plot. Viewers puzzle over Cage's standoffish magician beating up several burly FBI agents once freed from the Clockwork Orange chair as well as the fact that while the room he was held in was locked, the remainder of the building allows for him to saunter out unobstructed. Jessica Biel plays the hot girl who teaches underprivileged Native Americans and brings them birthday presents even when it's not her day to work. She also hooks up with a bad magician who claims super- limited clairvoyance, later sells him out to the FBI and then sells the FBI out to him all in the space of standoff with views of the Grand Canyon. She may not be particularly good at decision-making. What the movie lacks in interesting characters and dubious plotting, it also lacks in decent dialog particularly among the French-speaking bad guys who we are told early in the movie are Russians out to blow up Los Angeles. You don't expect a Cage character to do more than yell and run about but Moore's character spends the movie shouting orders menacingly - you imagine she's not much fun at the FBI offices annual holiday party. Biel's character gets no non-damsel-in-distress dialog. In short, this unintentionally funny production never lets you forget you are watching a movie.