Knowing is like Close Encounters meets The Day After Tomorrow. It’s the movie Keanu Reeves’ Day the Earth Stood Still remake wished it could have been. It’s liquid science fiction, poured straight into your brain without shame or another one of Hollywood’s pathetic attempts to disguise sci-fi as something more acceptable to the dumbed down masses.
The plot at first, plays out like a lot of the other really terrible movies Nicholas Cage has made lately. Cage is a somewhat geeky father whose kid gets a letter from inside a time capsule. Written fifty years ago the letter details, using dates, death tolls, and coordinates, every major disaster that’s happened in the last 50 years. There are 3 more to go, and the first of them happens tomorrow.
Nic Cage plays something of a dufus and while it’s a far from perfect performance it’s more adequate than anything he’s done recently. Cage is at his best when he’s playing a nerd and watching him shake and weep in the movie’s big do or die moments, when others might have played it macho, is exactly the kind of tone this movie needs. more...
The first trailer for the new movie from Alex Proyas, the mastermind behind Dark City, The Crow, and I, Robot is now online. It's called Knowing, and it stars Nic Cage as a man unraveling the secrets behind a note which may predict the future. Take a look:
