Knowing

2009 Directed by Alex Proyas

Knowing is Everything...

A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

Nicolas Cage Rose Byrne Chandler Canterbury Ben Mendelsohn Nadia Townsend D.G. Maloney Lara Robinson Alan Hopgood Adrienne Pickering Joshua Long Alethea McGrath Danielle Carter Tamara Donnellan Travis Waite

Summit Entertainment Escape Artists Mystery Clock Cinema Goldcrest Pictures Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment Wintergreen Productions

thriller suspense science fiction mystery drama adventure action

121 mins More details at IMDb / TMDb

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Review by Tony Black ½ 4

The only thing I was left Knowing for sure by the end credits, was that I'll never get these last two hours back.

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Review by Jimbo ★½ 1

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

A constantly drunk swooping-haired Nic Cage solves a super-vague 'code' in a matter of days. Rose Byrne may as well not be there. I kept expecting Cage's wig to fly off and save the day. I Know it would have made a better ending to the movie if it had.

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Review by FilmApe ★★★ 6

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The first time I saw this, I loved it. The second time I saw it, I loved it. The third time I watched it, I liked it a lot. The fourth time I watched, I liked it less, but still a fair bit. Now on a fifth watch, I find it hard to see how I could have loved it.

Knowing gets a lot right, and I have to give credit were credit is due. Special effects aside, the big moments in this (plane crash, subway, ending) are fantastic to behold. The use of crowds in the film is very effective, especially during the subway scene. The image of Cage driving through the crowded city at the end is great.…

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Review by Andy Summers ★★★★ 2

I've seen a lot of negative reviews of this film but I've got to say I enjoyed it immensely. An original and very clever idea is taken that extra step by Alex Proyas who uses his unique visual style to create a fascinating film.
When a time capsule is dug up after being buried for fifty years, one young child receives an envelope containing only numbers on a sheet of paper. These numbers are looked over by the child's father, a M.I.T professor who stumbles across a pattern revealing a frightening conclusion. A troubled schoolgirl had written these numbers fifty years before and had predicted global disasters and the number of dead. Unfortunately she has also predicted the end of…

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Review by chris (notnixon) ½

Close Encounters of the shite kind. Cage’s bad acting is only overshadowed by the horrible script.

Do yourself a favour and avoid this...at all costs.

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Review by Quemador ★★★

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Da la impresión de que nadie estaba seguro de si lo que tenían entre manos era una película de suspense, terror, ciencia ficción o desastres, pero resulta entretenida, que ya es bastante.

Por cierto, estando Dark City en la filmografía de Alex Proyas el final da bastante yuyu. Aparte de por la práctica extinción de la humanidad, claro.

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Review by Stephen Ferraioli ★★★½

This movie has its issues. Nicholas Cage's character figures out the connection with the numbers way too fast, and then, having accepted how quickly he was able to do this, he decides to give up and ignore the other numbers? So, now that you've made this amazing discovery, you are just going to leave the rest of the numbers and not try to reason with those? Oh, OK, you are just waiting until it's convenient to do so in order to move the plot along. Then, when he tells his friend what he found, the guy has the balls to say "People see what they want to see." What they want to see? This is not a loose interpretation or…

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Review by Spencer Vale ★★½

More Stephen Kingy than Philip K Dick(y)
Review by JJ Huber ★★

That ending ruins what could have been an interesting rental.
Review by Quemador ★★★

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Da la impresión de que nadie estaba seguro de si lo que tenían entre manos era una película de suspense, terror, ciencia ficción o desastres, pero resulta entretenida, que ya es bastante.

Por cierto, estando Dark City en la filmografía de Alex Proyas el final da bastante yuyu. Aparte de por la práctica extinción de la humanidad, claro.

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Review by moomoovies ★★

Great start, crap ending.
Review by Fimbulsleipnir ★★★★

Um.
Nic Cage
Moviefilm.
I enjoyed it as a I was drunk as hell.
Review by Austin Vashaw ★★★★★

A return to form for Proyas. Really enjoyed this one on a number of levels.
Review by MetalBlade ★★★★

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I like Alex Proyas, and this high concept mystery again shows his dark vision to full effect, as Nic Cage, unusually well cast as a professor of astrophysics at MIT and recent widower, struggles to come to terms with a discovery he has made.
The mystery is laid on thick throughout as he tries to decipher a code which can apparently predict the future.
There are some spectacular scenes and the film is well paced with quite literally a race against time to the surprising curve ball ending.

I long for Proyas to one day rekindle his Dark City partnership with writer David S Goyer, as their visions are made for each other and in this age of apocalyptic thinking, they could again create a dark masterpiece.
Review by Rarelord ★★

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Típica película de Nicolas Cage en la que 90% del filme deja ver como siempre su gesto de afligido, La historia empieza en los sños 50s donde los niños de un escuela realizan unos dibujos para depositarlos en una capsula del tiempo la cuál sería abierta en el futuro, donde una niña ''extraña'' prefiere llenar de numeros la hoja. 50 años más tarde la escuela abre la capsula y la hojita llega a las manos del hijo de Nicolas Cage (as usual), Inexplicablemente Cage se da cuenta que esa hoja está llena de fechas que sucedieron ataques terroristas, muertes, etc. Al principio me pareció que la historia llevaba una buena linea, hasta que al parecer al guinista se le cerro…

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