Knowing

The film starts in 1958 where a class of kids are drawing pictures to put in a time capsule, however a little girl in the class writes down a set of numbers instead as voices whisper in her head.

50 years later the capsule is opened and the current day students all take a picture each, only Caleb Myles gets the girls sheet filled with numbers, his dad is professor Ted Myles (Nicolas Cage), who after examing the numbers decides that they are predicitons of when terrible events will take place as they corrolate with tragedies of the past 50 years such as 9/11. He realizes there are three more dates on the paper that are yet to happen and sets out to stop them

I thought the film was utterly ludicrous with some great moments, kinda like a decent X Files episode with a budget.The plot holes are too numerous to mention them all but this film stretches "suspension of disbelief" to all new levels, characters don't react naturally to situations, the film expects us to believe that Nic Cage's character is the smartest man alive and that 2 kids are the best Massachusetts's has to offer, the film also was a testament to carpentry given that a key door in it had lasted 50 years, either that or it was a swipe at cheap budgeting in Massachusetts's schools.

Then we have the whispering men which in theory are cool but in the end are a huge blob of stupid sauce. Hello aliens, it may be wise if you want to tell us something you use your technology to do it in a pleasant way instead of having whispering albinos driving ppl insane.

Credit to Proyas, visually the film is great, some of the scenes of carnage are very powerful and the big plane set piece is truly spectacular, he also keeps things ticking at a good pace and keeps the atmosphere eerie.

Cage does his best to circumvent the script and I think this is his best mainstream performance in a while, but the movie goes from making his character look a genius.....]discovering the sun is about to kill us when everyone else in the world was late to the party.....to being an idiot....he is on the way to rescue his son from whispering albinos when he stops to have a calm conversation with Rose Byrne's corpse.....So it's an uphill struggle, but hey this is his best hair movie in years! :up:

All in all the plot is swiss cheese holy and contrived beyond belief, but if you put your brain in neutral and accept it on it's own terms it is an entertaining...though not always for the right reasons....slice of hokum.


OH!.....Btw very nice of the aliens to drop the kids off on Naboo!

6/10