Knowing (2009)

Director: Alex Proyas
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Genre: Mystery / Action / Thriller
MPAA: Rated PG-13
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The ORB's take: Knowing what I know now about Knowing they should have paid me for watching this trash.

Movie Review:
I knew that before the end of this film it was going to be hard to give it one star let alone a half. Believe it or not this is not Nicolas Cage's fault, it was the script. This movie tries to turn this sci-fi wanna be into a scary on-the-edge of your seat type of movie, but fails miserably. Lack of suspense, and lack of disasters is what this flick needed to improve its worth to be called a theatrical film and not a made-for-tv movie. The first 5 minutes shows promise, but then quickly makes you want to run out of the theater and sneak into Hannah Montana. SPOILER ALERT!!! (more like I am saving you from wasting your time alert) - Don't read if you really want to watch this film. The movie starts when a time capsule from an elementary school is dug up 50 years later at Nicholas Cage's son's school. His son's class gets to see the many drawings inside of the capsule and the one his son gets is a page filled with random numbers on it. Nicholas Cage looks at the drawing and figures out it is a pattern that tells the dates and locations of disasters that have taken place and that are going to take place. As he runs around trying to warn people about some disaster that is going to happen, we find out there are aliens whispering into his son's ear. They tell him what is going to happen and they were the ones whispering the numbers into the ear of the young elementary student that wrote the numbers down that predict the future 50 years earlier. If that's not enough to prove to you this flick is a waste of time, the aliens take the kids (from multiple places all over the earth) and drop them off on some planet to start over, because the earth gets burnt up by a solar flare from the sun. Remember when you waited to see the movie The Core until TNT or TBS aired it, and even then you changed the channel.......I'd advise you to do the same with Knowing as well.

What to Watch For: The only exciting thing in this movie, the disasters / crashes.

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