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Knowing (2009)

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Reviews Counted:160

Fresh:52

Rotten:108

Average Rating:4.7/10

Consensus: Knowing has some interesting ideas and a couple good scenes, but it's weighted down by its absurd plot and over-seriousness.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language.

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Theatrical Release:Mar 20, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $79,948,113

Synopsis: Nicolas Cage stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future—and sets out to prevent them from coming... Nicolas Cage stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future—and sets out to prevent them from coming true.

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 (Nicolas Cage), 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 (Rose Byrne) 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. --© Summit Entertainment [More]

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn, Terry Camilleri

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn, Terry Camilleri

Director: Alex Proyas

Director: Alex Proyas
Studio: Summit Entertainment

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Some movies, however unpromising, can be saved by a great ending. Here is one.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment 2 Comments
03/27/09
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

Knowing isn't good, exactly, but for connoisseurs of good-bad, it hits the spot like an asteroid.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment 1 Comment
03/27/09
Tim Robey
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph

What starts out as a tense and interesting movie slowly becomes an end of the world sci-fi mess that is too long and not exciting enough.

Full Review Source: Heart 106.2 | comment Comment
03/27/09
Simon Thompson
Simon Thompson
Heart 106.2

'Knowing' this film certainly isn't, but if special effects are your thing, you'll enjoy the ride.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment 1 Comment
03/27/09
Patrick Marmion
Patrick Marmion
Daily Mail [UK]

Stylishly directed by Alex Proyas (who made I, Robot) this is quite simply over-the-top bonkers.

Full Review Source: Sunday Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
03/27/09
Mark Adams
Mark Adams
Sunday Mirror [UK]

I've discovered a set of letters predicting when a catastrophically bad film is about to occur. They are NICOLASCAGE and, once again, the man who's given us more turkeys than Christmas is party to another shocker.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment 7 Comments
03/27/09
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

It really shouldn’t take itself so seriously because the plot is, to be frank, a load of sci-fi nonsense which stretches the suspension of disbelief beyond breaking point.

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
03/27/09
Sun Online

The film's final third [is] a mélange of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Christian eschatology that will make you wish the film had ended 15 minutes sooner.

Full Review Source: Time Out Sydney | comment Comment
03/27/09
Hank Sartin
Hank Sartin
Time Out Sydney

It has nothing but the most simplistic of insights, it mistakes mood for suspense, and even the special effects don't break new ground. A disappointing offering from one of Australia's most talented genre directors.

Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | comment Comment
03/27/09
Jason Di Rosso
Jason Di Rosso
MovieTime, ABC Radio National

The slam-bang set pieces deliver. So, with his spooked features and breathy-orotund voice, does Cage.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
03/27/09
Nigel Andrews
Nigel Andrews
Financial Times

Proyas has once again taken an interesting piece of science fiction and turned it into an action movie, in which potentially interesting ideas get short shrift.

Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | comment Comment
03/27/09
Julie Rigg
Julie Rigg
MovieTime, ABC Radio National

Despite burning his credibility card with a chorus line of cinematic crap, Cage seems to have (finally) picked decent material, and he turns in a solid performance here.

Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | comment Comment
03/27/09
Jarrod Walker
Jarrod Walker
FILMINK (Australia)

For sci-fi fans, this could become a contemporary classic.

Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | comment 5 Comments
03/27/09
David Stratton
David Stratton
At the Movies (Australia)

You’re better off not knowing.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment 1 Comment
03/27/09
Empire Magazine

The CGI is unconvincing, the big shock-and-awe finale is a throwback to the days of Deep Impact, and underneath it all is the nervous American insistence that there is life beyond the stars.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
03/27/09
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

Knowing, though the story of disasters, isn’t a total disaster itself. It’s just too ambitious for its own good.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
03/27/09
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

Know1ng is a terrible movie. But for sheer "you can't do that. You CAN'T do that. Did they just do that?" slack-jawed, drop- yer-popcorn astonishment, it's hard to see how this will be beaten in 2009.

Full Review Source: News of the World | comment Comment
03/27/09
Robbie Collin
Robbie Collin
News of the World

An expletive-filled expression of utter bewilderment awaits anyone who stumbles into what must surely be a new frontrunner for the barmiest blockbuster ever made.

Full Review Source: Scotsman | comment Comment
03/27/09
Alistair Harkness
Alistair Harkness
Scotsman

It's the worst kind of idiocy, the kind that's wholly invested in its own profundity.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
03/27/09
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

In the end, the whole thing's rather preposterous -- but you gotta admire Proyas' nerve for going there.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
03/26/09
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com
 
 
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