October 6, 2009
PANTS!
Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne
A teacher (Cage) opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that l...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 7, 2009
Stats: 34,675 reviews
Flixster Reviews (34,675)
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October 5, 2009At some point in his career, perhaps just after the finish of Face/Off, I lost touch with NIcholas Cage. And he lost touch with me. He went from being one of my favorite actors to someone whose work I dread taking any kind of chance on seeing. It is with that same dread...( read more)
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September 3, 2009I really, really, really wanted to like Knowing. There are so many interesting ideas that the film wants you to think about, and the disaster set pieces are incredibly staged and photographed. Nicholas Cage isn't too bad either.
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August 30, 2009Im not sure what to say here. I was very disappointed at the end. I just felt that it got kinda preachy and I don't know what else to say. Had me for a while and than just fell at the end for me.
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August 22, 2009First half is a solid end of the world thriller (although crappy CG) but once the mysteries start wrapping up it quickly degenerates into complete absurdity.
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November 7, 2009Movie was good, good story and plot and very good effects. Ending wasn't the best ever but still
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November 7, 2009An original, interesting and a chilling film. Dunno why it got bad reviews.
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November 4, 2009makes you think. I thought it was pretty hardcore in the fact that everything was predicted. sick shiit. :)
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Critic Reviews
March 27, 2009
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
March 23, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
If Alex Proyas' Knowing were reasonably entertaining -- instead of just dour, pointless and tedious -- it would be a camp classic. full review
March 20, 2009
Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com
An exciting , if not entirely plausible, sci-fi thriller. After this one, 'Next' and the 'National Treasure' movies star Nicolas Cage clearly likes 'Knowing' things before the rest of us. full review
March 20, 2009
Kurt Loder, MTV
A big creepy sci-fi thriller -- or two-thirds of one, anyway. full review
March 20, 2009
Kyle Smith, New York Post
The movie begins shameless, grows stupid and winds up silly. If the ending had less of the air of a crackpot religion and more pretentiousness, you could almost call it Shyamalanish. full review
March 20, 2009
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
The draggy, lurching two hours of Knowing will make you long for the end of the world, even as you worry that there will not be time for all your questions to be answered. full review
March 19, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today
If you're of a mind to believe a dreary and far-fetched thriller about numerology-crazed alien life forms, then you may find the movie mildly diverting. full review
March 19, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The resolution of the mysterious visitors' mission and John's crisis of faith feels more like an excuse to stage some hellacious cataclysms than the product of a genuine belief in anything at all. full review
March 19, 2009
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
A weird and gloomy existential thriller. full review
March 19, 2009
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
The promise that Alex Proyas showed with 1998's Dark City is only very sporadically evident in Knowing, the director's second sci-fi saga. full review
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July 31, 2009It was a... weird movie. I don't really like Nicholas Cage and I didn't really like this movie. It kinda reminded me of the Simpsons episode when Homer thinks he has predicted the end of the world. I may watch it again but not for a while. Maybe If I can't remember what happened. And the cycle of confusion will begin again
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July 11, 2009This was a great movie if you believe in angels as our "beings" that overlook us "human beings". The universe is full of energy beings and the only way to try to explain this to humans is utilizing an outer space ship to transport us. You have to look at the movie in a different way. It is not destiny, however; all of human beings have a purpose and talents and the future time frames were that child's gift of "knowing". A must see if you open your mind.
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April 23, 2009kl movie but i expected more then that.. the things abt numbers and dates and location etc.. it was very good and mysterious.. i just didn't like the end :S .. it seems like something fantasy .... aliens .. i hate movies abt em ...
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April 4, 2009A very good Nicolas Cage movie. One of the biggest reasons I went to see it was because of him. I love him and he is a great actor.
Although I would like to talk about how Nicolas Cage has not aged very well and will not look good when his hair is gone, I must say the predictableness of the movie almost turned me away from it in the beginning.
I'm normally good at reading movies anyway but this one was especially predictable.
Not only were the commercials a big give-away but about half-way through the moive, the ending was easy to see.
Despite the predictableness, the story itself was very sci-fi with a tough of fantasy in the whole number reading thing.
(spoilers) It has a sad ending becuase everyone dies but lovable characters which the directers and writers used to make an easy tear-jerk at the end.
It almost got me...almost. If I hadn't been so concerned with critisizing the movie, I would've been sucked in myself.
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March 20, 2009Astrophysics Professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) teaches students at MIT & Phil Beckman (Ben Mendelsohn) is a Cosmologist work @ Massachusetts Observatory in Wayford, Massachusetts.
Diana Wayford (Rose Byrne) is the Daughter & Abby Wayford (Lara Robinson) is the Granddaughter of decreased Author Lucinda Embry-Wayford (Lara Robinson) who wrote encoded numbers in 1959 put in time capsule for 50 years earlier in 2009.
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March 2, 2009
In 1958, The dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, A group of students drawing of the future in a time capsule is buried on the grounds & scheduled to be unearthed on the school's 50th Anniversary. A mysterious girl scribbles a series of random sequence numbers instead drawing on her paper to put in time capsule before it is buried. 50 years later, 1 of those students named young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury) opens the letter with the mysterious sequence of numbers falling into his possession when he hands it to his father, Professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) to study statistic analyzes pinpoint cryptic numbers are encoded message the precise dates, death tolls, & coordinates of every major disaster since the time capsule was buried. Professor Koestler is able to track down Author of the prophecies' Daughter: Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne), & Granddaughter Abby agree to aid in the investigation to prevent destruction on a global scale.
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