I think that I should start out my review of Knowing, with that it’s not that good of a movie, though it’s still not as bad as the critical reviews of derided it. In that sense, I liked the first two-thirds of the film, which kept me tense and filled with suspense. But by the final act of the film, when the alien spaceships start to arrive, I realized that Knowing had turned into your typical alien sci-fi adventure.
Nicolas Cage stars as Professor John Koestler, who’s wife has died, is raising his young son Caleb on his own, and hasn’t spoken to his pastor father in years. One day, Caleb and his classmates get a time capsule that students at the same school, fifty years previously, had drawn pictures into for the future students. Caleb get’s a picture with numbers on it. John dismisses it at first, but later looks at it, and after researching on the internet, discovers that the numbers match up to the dates, location and number of casualties of each of Earth’s disasters. There are three disasters left according to the paper, and in the last one, ‘everyone else’ dies.
Directed by John Proyas, Knowing works all right as a science fiction film. I really did think that I was on the verge of watching a good, underrated movie. What sucks is when we discover the truth, the dots are all connected, and Earth is going to be wiped out in the next couple of seconds, and a giant, alien spaceship lands on Earth from the sky, and then it all becomes hocus pocus.
Knowing is not a bad movie. I think it’s still underrated, though it probably doesn’t deserve any more attention from the audience then what it got (it was a box-office success), and it’s not the must-see action flick of the summer.
Knowing is well-acted by Cage, the script isn’t bad, the disaster scenes are convincing, and the first two-thirds of the movie are good, though not by any means excellent. The last third of the movie completely ruined it, and as a result, I can only barely give Knowing a pass.
***/5
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