Knowing

Pros: -Good story line
-Funny
-Interesting
Cons: -More sound scenes possibly?

    Knowing         Knowing is one of the best movies that have come out recently. The actors, brilliant story line, and surprising events that take place make Knowing a must see film. When I first ...

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: The Ending, the crazy plot that somehow works
Cons: Gaps in logic obviously, supporting cast is weak

When Knowing came out, it got horrible reviews, people were saying this was going to sweep the Razzies, I thought it looked really stupid, so I never did get around to seeing it in theatres. I must admit, I love Nicholas Cage, I find him entertaining, ...

Pros: Very good plot, suspense and mystery. There are excellent special effects.
Cons: Not an inspiring movie, although rated PG-13 I don’t recommend it for children..  

Rating PG-13, 2 hrs 1 min. with Lara Robinson, Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury and Ben Mendelsohn. Directed by Alex Proyas. Don’t expect a feel good feeling after leaving this one. ...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Moves right along but with a sense of hidden forces lurking.
Cons: The professor finds too much solace in the bottle.

The future just ain't what it used to be. A 1959 class at William Dawes Elementary School, Lexington, Mass., preserves in a time capsule their conceptions of the future come 50 years. The opening scenes of "Knowing" are personally embarrassing as I ...

Pros: Thought provoking film that mixes theology with science.
Cons: Any film dealing with apocalyptic prophecy has little chance of making you feel good.

NOTE: EPINIONS FALLS BEHING AGAIN. THIS REVIEW IS OF THE CURRENT DVD RELEASE OF THE FILM RATHER THAN THE THEATRICAL RELEASE SINCE THIS IS THE ONLY LISTING AVAILABLE AT EPINIONS.What if you had a way to see the future? Would you try and change ...

Pros: Nicholas Cage, always good.
Cons: 2nd part of the movie tries to meet to many politically correct agendas

The first half of the movie good. It was showing the potential of being like a National Treasure type of movie. Fun of learning how the main characters were going to delve into this mystery and solve the puzzle. They jumped almost to quickly giving ...

Pros: Intriguing plot, Nick Cage
Cons: convenient plot; ending possibly, depending on the individual

"What happens when the numbers run out?".the plotEight-year-old Caleb and his elementary school unearths a 50 year old time capsule from the third grade class from fifty years ago.  The class ...

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 ...