Just got back from watching Nic Cage's latest, Knowing. Despite changing genre every 15 minutes (spot the progression from thriller to horror to bizzarre sci-fi come disaster movie), it's got some interesting ideas going on.
Replete with Biblical themes - from the final judgement by fire (from which only the called will be saved; Calvinist theologians rejoice!) - through to the Edenic tree-of-life ending, there's plenty of material for discussion.
However, it must be said that any Christian ethos is portrayed in a completely immasculated form: humanoid aliens take God's place; the climactic theophany is revealed as advanced technology rather than the personal God.
Essentially, you're getting a demythologized apocalypse (aliens are apparently more palatable than God), and while it's admirable that the writer's didn't go down the Green route of death-by-pollution (the ozone layer was only mentioned once!), Knowing is ultimately an unsatisfying way to spend 90 minutes of your life.
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