First part: a long and boring introduction of the main characters;
The event: a minute, when you see a lot of people suddenly disappear, leaving all their stuff behind. Not gone away or taken away, but simply vanished out of their clothes.
Second part: usual manifestations of mass hysteria and inevitable shitheads in action
The ending: ‘our heroes’ saving themselves and those they can in an absurd way.
Basically 109 minutes of nothing but boredom out of 110.
The characters were unbearable, absurd, stereotypes, boring. Worst of all the main characters, the girl and her dad, Chloe (Cassi Thomson) and her father Ray (Nicolas Cage). Apparently in the last year her mother had become more obsessed than ever with the bible, talking a lot about it trying to convey a message and make them understand, but they simply got fed up with her and tried to avoid her as much as possible. Chloe thinks she’s crazy and a fanatic, which she might very well be but what Chloe doesn’t admit is that she’s a crazy fanatic herself, only on the opposite side. She comes back from school and as soon as she meets her mom she starts talking about it in an offensive way, and then refuses to hear her talking about it. That’s what I call a fanatic, when you try to convince others of your ideas any way you can, instead of letting everybody free of making their own choices and belief. It doesn’t matter if the idea is ‘there is a God’ or ‘there is no God’, if you try to impose your idea over others you’re a fanatic.
Ray is a pilot and has an affair with his flight attendant Hattie (Nicky Whelan) who doesn’t even know that he’s married. He’s all ‘oh how I love my daughter, I’d never hurt my wife’, and all that, and yet he planned in advance to leave for London with his mistress for his own birthday instead of spending it at home with wife and daughter - and also his son, who I think he never mentions once :-/
He leaves on a flight to London and Chloe is out with her younger brother when suddenly a lot of people simply disappear. Chaos ensues of course, and not only people trying to understand where the loved one have gone. There are a lot of people who take advantage of the situation to steal whatever they can, because the world is filled with shits like that.
Everybody is either: being a shit, crying over those they lost, or losing their minds. Everybody but Ray and Buck (Chad Michael Murray), ‘our heroes’, who try to keep people calm on the plane...
When Ray finds evidence that the missing co-pilot and the missing flight attendant Katie strongly believed in God and the bible, he realizes that his wife had been right all along, trying to prepare them for this, the moment when God would bring to him to Paradise those who believed in him, leaving everybody else behind. He’s left to pilot the plane alone, and the plane has been damaged and has lost fuel, and the airports are all off-limits so he can’t land there, but luckily Buck is able to contact Chloe just in time for her to take a motorbike and then a truck and free a road for them to land on, safe and sound. Rather conveniently she has just enough time, and she finds some fuel and a lighter to make a big fire so they can see where to go. They land safely and she runs to them, and jumps into Buck’s arms - and they had known each other no more than an hour before he boarded the plane, and then she runs to her father, and the three of them join hands and say that this is not the end of the world, this is just the beginning.
Boring, so so boring. The scenes of hysteria were so long and annoying. The hero-scenes were so long and boring.
One more thing: the people who disappeared, they were people who really believed in God, like Katie who had regular Bible sessions or something, and ALL the children. Not just the babies, but all the children, and in fact we see all adults around. This is another stupid thing. First of all not everyone who really believes in God is also obsessed with the bible - although they put in a scene where we see that a priest has not disappeared because he said the words every Sunday but deep down didn’t ‘really’ believe anymore - and second: how it was decided who is a child and who isn’t? What’s the age limit? All the minors disappeared? As if all the minors were pure and innocent? All small children are born pure and innocent, but after a few years not everybody is anymore, because children tend to emulate their parents. How many bullies in schools? Did they go to Paradise too?
Oh one more thing, another stupid scene, Ray’s last communication: he tells the passengers to stay calm, to remain in their seats, and tells them everything else, that there is no fuel and no airport, and tells them to pray! As if after those words anybody could stay calm!
There’s really nothing going on for this movie, nothing.
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