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Product Details
Nicolas Cage stars in this largely unsatisfying science-fiction tale that begins as a taut and spooky story concerning psychic legacies and ends up falling back on Steven Spielberg's old, cosmic playbook for default explanations about weird phenomena. Cage stars as astrophysicist and widower John Koestler, whose young son attends a school where a 50-year-old time capsule is dug up and opened. Koestler's son, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), is given an envelope from the capsule containing a sheet of paper inscribed with seemingly-random numbers. Koestler interprets groupings of the numbers as prophesies (made in 1959) of disasters leading up to a globally catastrophic event late in 2009. Moreover, some of the later tragedies involve him or members of his family, suggesting the paper was meant to fall into his and Caleb's hands. Thats not the only freaky thing drawing father and son in a direction they really don't want to go. Among other things, a quartet of mute strangers keeps showing up with a powerful interest in Caleb's whereabouts, and the daughter and granddaughter of the little girl who originally scribbled those numbers in 1959 are under the shadow of a separate prediction of doom. Everything goes swimmingly until it's time for director Alex Proyas (The Crow) to begin tying up all the strings, and cliches start falling like rain. On the plus side, Knowing includes a couple of breathtaking scenes of calamity, the most horrifying (and realistic) of which is a jet crash the likes of which has never been committed to film. --Tom Keogh
Product Reviews
 (1 stars) - Dreadful!
Basic idea behind this film - believe in god, go to heaven; don't believe in god - burn in hell. Not that heaven looks all that appealing, if it's inhabited by sinister non-talking angels who frighten you half to death. The production budget must have been high, but the acting is flat, the premise is incredibly flawed and unbelievable (not to mention boring), and you're left at the end wondering if that's all there is - a scary Eden. If you like fire and brimstone and the idea that nonbelievers, despite being fellow human beings and decent people, all burn in hell, you'll probably like this awful film.
 (4 stars) - I Liked This Movie
Actually, I really liked this movie. I found it thought provoking, interesting, intense at parts and I actually like movies that have endings like this.
I think the religious undertones in this movie don't really detract from it as much as they make you think about where exactly we draw the line between proof and believing in something that we can't explain. I personally believe that science and spirituality share more common ground than either side might realize, although I consider myself an agnostic. I don't know if I'm right or not, and don't want to spoil the ending, so I'll just say that I looked through it with more "Sci-Fi" lenses than spiritual ones and really enjoyed the movie and the ending.
Go into it with an open mind and see if you like it. I know several people who really enjoyed it, and some people who were really turned off by it who normally have similar tastes to myself.
I'm giving it 4 out of 5 stars because I think it doesn't really hold up to a lot of repeat viewings but it makes a good rental, just to roll the dice and see if you're one of the ones who enjoys it.
(4 stars) - Very interesting!
Nicholas age's son, at the school ceremony of opening a 50 year time tube that includes imaginative drawings of the future made by school children 50 years ago, picks up a paper full of random numbers instead of a drawing in his case. Nicholas Cage examines the numbers to discover that they are not random whatsoever. They are dates and coordinates of future disasters. Using his discovery, he tries to stop future disasters from happening, only to discover that its not in his hands.
Very different kinda movie. I cannot give more details in order to avoid ruining the plot. This is the kind of movie that you should watch without having any hint on what to expect.
 (2 stars) - The Sun has a lot to answer for
Comparing this science fiction/ghost thriller to the rather ridiculous apocalyptic movie 2012, I notice disturbing parallells. My hunch: somebody in the US is driving a campaign against the sun, who is finally taking the blame for everything.
That can't possibly be right, especially since there seem to be people around who believe this kind of thing. This is anti-enlightenment and anti-science packaged in scary entertainment! Some even talk about spirituality. I can't discuss this here without giving away too much of the plot.
Had I not just watched 2012, I might have said: ok, a partly not so stupid story about clairvoyance and strange happenings, one might have taken it for an average Stephen King movie. Compared to 2012 it is, I thought for a while, not so stupid, if you like the genre (numbers, predictions of disasters, whispering voices, children apporached by shady beings...). There is even a pseudo-intellectual touch when the professor played by Cage (actually not badly) discusses determinism vs randomism in class, and admits that he is a randomist and then, of course, he has to give up all his scientific creeds.
In the end, it seems to me, this is part of a pattern of apocalytpic thinking, that can't be welcome. Some toying with esoterics can make for entertaining movies, but here we are going over the top.
In case that somebody still wants to watch this and wants to preserve the 'suspense', I abstain from going into further detail.
Let me just say as my personal conclusion: this is fascistoid, anti-scientific, racist brainwashing!
 (5 stars) - an so ......
exc curl up wth sum popcorn viewin a lil emotional bt yeah brimstone can b fun n yes thr is tht fascination wth wrld en these trying daze... so enjy th price is rt th dvd qual. wuz exc. n yeah i luv nick n co..... i wud certainly recommen' this1.....
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