1959年，美国马塞诸塞州列辛顿威廉道斯小学，该校即将迎来校庆日，小女孩露辛达•安伯利（Lara Robinson 饰）提出的创意为校长所采纳。校庆日时，学生们将画下自己对未来的设想，并集中放入金属时间囊中埋入地下，准备50年后重新开启。校庆日之后，举止怪异的露辛达用鲜血在墙上写下奇怪文字，并向老师提出警告。 2009年，威廉道斯小学再次迎来校庆日，被埋藏地下50年之久的时间囊重见天日。小男孩凯勒（Chandler Canterbury 饰）得到露辛达的信，上面没有任何图画，整页布满毫无规律可言的数字。凯勒的父亲约翰（尼古拉斯•凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰）夜晚研究这些数字，竟发现这是一组具有预言性的密码。文中的数字清楚记录了世界上过去50年所发生的各种灾难。除此之外，这组数字还包括了接下来将发生的重大灾难……
未来世界，地球因环境污染而千疮百孔，人类家园破败萧条。一颗陨石突然撞击地球，并带来杀伤力极强的外星生物，560万人将因此失去生命。人类命运岌岌可危，总指挥李升（张家辉 饰）派出以军人泰来（古天乐 饰）为首的精英部队前往执行改造计划，部队却突遭暴力攻击，只有泰来和通讯兵光仔（万国鹏 饰）幸存。军官谭冰（刘嘉玲 饰）坚持执行PlanB，指挥官郑重生（刘青云 饰）反对并找来旧友臭鼬（姜皓文 饰）前往支援。拯救家园刻不容缓，但在通讯员小绿（吴倩 饰）悄悄提醒下，泰来发现了一个足以毁天灭地的邪恶阴谋……
影片设定在1995年的东京，主人公高仓宗一郎(山崎贤人 饰)继承亡父之友松下的遗愿研究着等离子蓄电池，并与爱猫皮特和松下之女璃子过着安定平稳的生活。然而，宗一郎却遭到合作伙伴和未婚妻的背叛，自己的公司、正在开发中的机器人和蓄电池都被掠夺，而他自己也被放进冷冻睡眠装置，一觉醒来已来到2025年的东京。在得知爱猫皮特和璃子的死讯后，失去一切的宗一郎决定要跨越30年的时空，进行一场复仇…
Wunder der Schöpfung is an extraordinary, fascinating Kulturfilm trying to explain the whole human knowledge of the 1920s about the world and the universe. 15 special effects experts and 9 cameramen were involved in the production of this film which combines documentary scenes, historical documents, fiction elements, animation scenes and educational impact. It its beautifully colored, using tinting and toning in a very elaborated way. Some visual ideas in the sequences with a space shuttle visiting different planets in the universe seem to have to be the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the context of Germany's Kulturfilm phenomenon, Wunder der Schöpfung was among the greatest achievements of the 1920s. The production was constructed, rehearsed, and shot over a period of two and a half years, under the supervision of Hanns Walter Kornblum. The idea to describe the universe and man's place in it well suited UFA's Grossfilm mentality, one year before the Metropolis catastrophe. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen participated in the project, building props and constructing scale models drawn by 15 special effects draughtsmen, while 9 cameramen in separate units worked on the historical, documentary, fiction, animation, and science-fiction sequences. Without star roles or even protagonists, the film's plot is crowded with meticulously structured and skillfully acted single scenes an artful mosaic of small vignettes. No less than four credited university professors ensured the factual background behind the scientific and historical events portrayed. The film's symbol of progress and the new scientific era is a spacecraft, travelling through the Milky Way, making all the planets and their inspiring worlds familiar to us, with the extravaganza of their distinctive features. The film's educational intentions, however, become steadily more obscure, humorous, or even campy as this popularization project proceeds. With the excuse of presenting the end of the world a not-so-new concept as a new, undeniably scientific truth, the film veers happily along a new path, displaying detailed apocalyptic scenes of the end of mankind. For today's audiences, this amazing film demonstrates how the universe was comprehended in the 1920s, and how that view was sold to contemporary audiences.
