Knowing (2009)

Waste of time

That was an excellent one.

Good idea lost in the noise

Expected more

Knowing is a strange film to review. On the one hand it contains some genuinely creepy scenes including a plane crash that is convincing and a scene in the woods that is eerie but the story about a professor who goes out to prevent catastrophes based on a list contained in an unearthed time capsule falls flat. This is probably the film when Nicholas Cage started going nuts and acting in every film that was probably thrown his way, though this cannot be faulted at the film. Alex Proyas could have done a better job but it is a decent effort containing some great isolated sequences.

Knowing is a strange film to review. On the one hand it contains some genuinely creepy scenes including a plane crash that is convincing and a scene in the woods that is eerie but the story about a professor who goes out to prevent catastrophes based on a list contained in an unearthed time capsule falls flat. This is probably the film when Nicholas Cage started going nuts and acting in every film that was probably thrown his way, though this cannot be faulted at the film. Alex Proyas could have done a better job but it is a decent effort containing some great isolated sequences.

My review might preview some of what happened in the movie, so do not read it in case you have not watched the movies yet!At the first two thirds of the movie I enjoyed it so much. But once they found what EE really means, The movie started to get out of the story and making no sense!I, personally, was expecting that John and Diana would work together to prevent this tragedy from happening. If the story of the movie was this way "John work to minimize the loss of every single disaster" , the movie would be much way better than it really is.

There are films that I thought would have potential and there are films that lead to a somewhat climatic buildup but are left with the audience confused and dumbfounded. When I first saw this movie, I thought it was alright, I mean there are worse "end-of-the-world" movies, but then there is, "Knowing." Knowing was and is a mess, anything Nicholas Cage touches, it turns to dirt. The buildup for the movie gave hope in how a end of the world movie would be, but it's not the beginning or middle, it's the ending that had me confused and baffled. The movie basically was saying that the world is ending and how more or less children are our "salvation." But what really was happening was a mess and confusion. They combined elements from different movie aspects and made it appalling. I do not recommend this film to anyone or anything.