Knowing

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Knowing

Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Adrienne Pickering, Ben Mendelsohn

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  read more... )ead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

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  • gor41
    December 12, 2009
    gor41
    Am I missing something ? Ok the acting is abysmal and the plot predictable but it has two jaw dropping sequences and style oozing from every frame. It may lack originality ('Pi' covered similar number theories) but it at least feels fresh in its blend of apocalyptic paranoia and ...( read more)aliens. Better than 'they' say it is.
  • JohnSilver
    November 24, 2009
    JohnSilver
    OUAINNN !!! EEEE.... Quoi dire ??? Une histoire qui semble mélanger deux mondes, des effets spéciaux À CHIER! et un fin très ordinaire.

    Rien à dire de plus! C'est complètement n'importe quoi! Selon moi, ce n'était pas des dessins que les enfants avaient encapsulés, mais le scr...( read more)ipt de se film.

    Nicolas Cage à déjà mieux paru !
  • stuartb1234
    October 6, 2009
    stuartb1234
    PANTS!
  • binky013
    October 5, 2009
    binky013
    At 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) that I rented this one. Much to my surprise, he has come back to himself in the movie.

    Not that this movie is spectacular. In fact, it's pretty ho-hum scifi. But Cage plays the kind of character in this one that I remember admiring him for a long time ago: he works within the script, allowing his character to drive him rather than vice-versa. In other words, he acts in this one, and he acts well. I don't know what caused him to become such an over-actor, but I'm glad he can still remember how he did it before and can still find that good acting within himself.
  • MovieGeek13
    September 3, 2009
    MovieGeek13
    I 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.
    The problem is that the film juggles too many ide...( read more)as and changes tone so quickly, you're not sure if you're watching a disaster epic, an alien movie, a horror movie, or a family drama. Alex Proyas has always been a director who aims to create intelligent action films, but in Knowing, he's working on maximum overdrive.
    Instead of providing some great food for thought as to whether the universe operates at random or predetermination, Knowing leaves you not sure what to think. The final act of the picture is especially weird.
    There are also gaping holes in the story and plot points that exist specifically so that the viewer can understand what is going on. But these plot points have no reason to exist within the story. I can't really go into detail without revealing major spoilers, but if someone can explain what the point of those stones are, and why if someone knows when the world is going to end that they need to warn us about every fatal disaster that occurs leading up to that point, please, I'm all ears.
    Alas, Knowing is an admirable failure, a failure because it wants to tackle more ideas than in can handle instead of embracing a few themes and exploring the complexity of said themes. Alex Proyas has made films that are more like the latter: The Crow, I Robot (to an extent), and the masterpiece Dark City. Knowing could have joined that list, but sadly, it's an ambitious mess :(
  • crisbicfa31
    December 29, 2009
    crisbicfa31
    *WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE NUMBERS RUN OUT?
    Oh gOsH!ang ganda ganda tlg nitong moviE n tOh! :))
    It's a big WOW![AMAZING!] aun..bztaH..ang ganda tlg.. suUuper.. ^^
    nakakaiyak ung "Y0U AND ME...TOGETHER...fOREVER!!"
    [lalo na ung scene na nagkahiwalay na clang 2..] :(
    the story goes lik...( read more)e this..
    In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As John further unravels the document's chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events -- the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son. When John's attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place. With the reluctant help of Diana Wayland and Abby Wayland, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John's increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster -- and the ultimate sacrifice.
  • robnuguid
    December 28, 2009
    robnuguid
    Very good start, but terribly bad ending.
  • bbcfloridabound
    December 28, 2009
    bbcfloridabound
    Outstanding Movie and Subject matter, on of the few movies that is some what believable about future events. The idea of the time capsule and the numbers sheet took some imagination to join together and it combined to make a edge of the seat movie. Full of suspense and action, Cr...( read more)ash scenes unreal. Movie will pick up many awards I am sure of that. This one goes into the collection. Its worth full price. Rose Byrne was excellent throughout as was Nicolas Cage and Chandler Canterbury. On the big screen it would be capturing. 5 Stars Nothing Less.
  • swimbikebeer
    December 27, 2009
    swimbikebeer
    i like nicolas cage but this movie was uneventful
  • elementice5
    December 26, 2009
    elementice5
    this movie was amazing. the ending really got to me. young or old, this is a movie to watch. this movie really scared the heck out of me at some parts. but this is a MUST SEE! alex proyas is a genius.
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