Originally posted by: Freki
Also the fact that this story was really just about how it took the end of the world for tom cruise's character to become a good dad was pretty boring.(so good a dad that he left his son to walk into certain death by wall of fire, nevermind the fact that he lived).
I'd say the movie was more like assassin said: about life coming to an end, human nature in the face of danger, etc etc.
You have your opinion, but I liked the Father/Son relationship part of the story in this movie. Tom Cruise's character came out in the end a much better person than when he started. I thought it was cool.

And (this is debatable) I think that letting Robbie go off was not bad parenting at all. It was more like he was letting his son go (to use the cliche - he let him "leave the nest"), to go off and live his life, become a man at the end of days, blah blah blah. Cruise realized that he couldn't contain his son as he had been trying to, and allowed him make his own decisions. Yeah, it was unfortunate that Robbie "died' the next instant...but shit happens.