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Nicholas Cage is a guy who can see two minutes into the future, and see what's
going to happen to him next. And apparently has been living with this kind of
perception for his whole life, so by now can do some pretty funky things with
it. Effectively, he's a save weasel, to use the video game term, able to replay
a situation in his head until he works out the exact sequence of moves he needs
to make to win the fight, get the girl, evade the cops, and generally not die
in seemingly impossible situations.

The plot is quite slight; there's a nuclear threat, and the FBI are sure he can
help them. It's very 24 in that regard. The slenderness of the plot, however is
fine; the film's not about that, it's only there to showcase what the
seemingly limited superpower of 2 minute precognition could really do, and what
kind of person you'd be if you could do that.

Nicholas Cage has, alas, lost quite a lot of whatever matinee idol presence he
once had; he's not aged well, and his hair just looks odd. His love interest is
18 years younger than him, and boy, does it make him look like a perv.

Despite all that, there's some really nice scifi chinstrokey moments, coming as
it does from a Philip K Dick story, and for once, the sci-fi ideas aren't
overlaboured.

7.5/10 - Groundhog Day with guns and explosions.