Nicolas Cage stars in this largely unsatisfying science-fiction tale that begins as a taut and spooky story concerning psychic legacies and ends up falling back on Steven Spielberg's old; cosmic playbook for default explanations about weird phenomena. Cage stars as astrophysicist and widower John Koestler; whose young son attends a school where a 50-year-old time capsule is dug up and opened. Koestler's son; Caleb (Chandler Canterbury); is given an envelope from the capsule containing a sheet of paper inscribed with seemingly-random numbers. Koestler interprets groupings of the numbers as prophesies (made in 1959) of disasters leading up to a globally catastrophic event late in 2009. Moreover; some of the later tragedies involve him or members of his family; suggesting the paper was meant to fall into his and Caleb's hands. That