Knowing

Pros: Entertaining movie overall.  Interesting idea for the plot.
Cons: Ending.  Won’t appeal to everyone.

I've seen many of the movies that Nicolas Cage has made and I usually end up enjoying them - even when the movies have had some issues.  I decided to go see Knowing when I recently had the chance.In 1959, a new elementary ...

Pros: Interesting concept, good special effects, fresh dialogue.
Cons: A few tough premises, some strained dialogue at times.

Watching the trailers for Knowing, it seemed to me that the film might be something like Signs.  That was a decent assessment, but Knowing took a very different route to get where it was going.  I enjoy a good thriller as ...

Pros: Excellent script, good acting and great special effects
Cons: Ending a little weak

I really didn't know what to expect from "Knowing".  Part of my mixed feelings concerned it lead actor:  Nicolas Cage.  As I've written before concerning Cage, he seems to either make really good films ("Adaptation", "Leaving Las Vegas", ...

Pros: A story with an interesting premise
Cons: A story with gaps and lack of personal touch

Some people carry the weight of the world on their minds. Yet, they do their best to carry on with their lives, and keep that weight to themselves. One of them was a grade school student in 1959 Massachusetts. In class, she had suggested a time capsule ...

Pros: interesting premise, had hope of being good
Cons: cookie cutter characters, needed more character development, script had too many gaps

Nicolas Cage has pigeon holed himself into a niche of movie roles where he plays the lonely man or father, and has to have some life changing epiphanyduring the film.  Knowing is just another film in that genre for Cage, and while the ...

Pros: Cage is fun to watch, even in schlock like this.
Cons: Not scary, just really dumb.  It's more of an unintended comedy.

Nicolas Cage is one of my favorite actors.  Some people who don't get why this guy is a leading man, but Cage evokes a certain flavor of angst you just can't get from a field full of pretty boys.  Then again, Cage's choices are a mixed ...

Pros: Nicolas Cage, good first half
Cons: Lame second half, subpar graphics, some dry acting

Nicolas Cage has always been one of my favorite actors, which is the main reason I headed to see Knowing just a few hours ago. While science fiction movies (or books, for that matter) have never been my "thing", I figured I would give Knowing a shot ...

Pros: Decent premise with some early intrigue
Cons: Terrible and nonsensical ending

In most cases, science fiction films pose any interesting dilemma for the filmmaker. It's always a fine line that must be carefully balanced between reality and fantasy. If you step too far into the fantasy realm, the film can turn out amateurish and ...

Pros: This intelligent film does not take the "popular" ((Profitable)) path by sacrificing its integrity.
Cons: Some of the science is dubious; but it's Sci Fi; give it a rest!

Knowing (2009) Directed by Alex Proyas"What happens when the numbers run out?"  Diana WhelanThis movie starts in 1959.  Lucinda Weyland (Lara Robinson) is a fey little waif whose idea to commemorate the ...

Pros: engrossing, vivid graphics, interesting themes, intense apocalyptic thriller, kid actors
Cons: average adult acting, some holes/questions in plot

Apocalyptic movies can be creepy and unnerving but I love them. Add in mysterious codes and questions about faith and I'm sold. Knowing, a movie that came out this year starring Nicolas Cage, satisfies all those requirements. Nicolas Cage plays ...

Pros: Score, effects
Cons: Subtext is heavily derivative of "Signs"

2009 seems to be a good year for the end of the world on film.  Coming out later this year are "Terminator: Salvation," "2012," and the film adaptation of "The Road," all of which I intend to see.  I hope at least one of them, however, proves ...

Pros: Nicolas Cage's performance; near-operatic CGI effects at the climax and the coda
Cons: Occasionally clunky dialogue and acting slow things down in places

Knowing As we have seen so often, both in the real world and the reel world, science and religion have a nasty way of colliding with each other, often setting people against one another.  On the one side are those who believe things with ...

Pros: Good premise and drama, some great FX sequences.
Cons: Ending was to Hollywood.

John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) is a man who lives in a world of facts. As a professor at M.I.T. he is more concerned about things that can be proven through hard science than with things that cannot be proven. With the recent loss of his wife leaving him a ...

Pros: Original, well-acted and splended special effects.
Cons: This movie is about terrible disasters and tragedies.

Watching KNOWING (2009) I spotted a little bits here and there that may have been borrowed from earlier sci-fi and fantasy movies - particularly MOTHMEN - yet this movie is original and very entertaining, even for a disaster flick.We begin in ...

Pros: Science Fiction Flick, Apocalyptic Story
Cons: Poor Plot Development, No Explanation of Themes

Knowing (2009) is an apocalyptic science fiction film in theaters now. It is 1959, Lexington, Massachusetts. A new local elementary celebrates its grand opening by burying a time capsule containing the students' drawings. The time capsule idea ...