Knowing 2009 Directed by Alex Proyas
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.
Steve Tisch Norman Golightly Aaron Kaplan Sean Perrone Alex Proyas Todd Black Jason Blumenthal Ryne Douglas Pearson Topher Dow Stephen Jones David Bloomfield
Summit Entertainment Escape Artists Mystery Clock Cinema Goldcrest Pictures Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment Wintergreen Productions
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There's nothing on this Earth quite like a Nicolas Cage freakout. It's truly an art form.
i like how ruthlessly this trades on the anxieties of single and estranged parents which -- astonishingly, given how deeply silly this is -- manages to dovetail quite nicely with its apocalypse paranoia and stoner dorm-room spirituality. plus that plane crash sequence is pretty gnarly.
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Damn. There goes my "Blowing, more like." review.
The last 20 minutes are mostly awful. Nicolas Cage is pretty terrible except when he's shouting and running. It's a clumsy mish-mash of religious metaphors, numerology, truther nonsense, alien conspiracy silliness and dodgy science. It's clearly all been stuck together with cellotape and barely hangs together for its two hour duration. It just about does though and emerges as something that really did entertain me enormously.
I didn't know beforehand it was directed by Alex Proyas. This did worry me because although I liked The Crow and quite enjoyed I, Robot, I really didn't think much of his most acclaimed film, Dark City at…
At first glance I thought this sounded like a really interesting idea for a movie and for the first half an hour or so it was. After that it got kind of boring and Nicolas Cage's performance left much to be desired. The last half an hour of the movie is so awful that it ruined the entire movie. I feel like they came up with this idea but then had no idea how to end it so they came up with this garbage. There is a complete tonal shift at the end and you would think you were watching two completely different movies if you were shown the first half and then the ending separately. A twist can be fantastic if pulled off well and lets just say it definitely wasnt pulled off well. At all.
DATALOG ENTRY 331117195311181521121121133:
I'm running on 3 hours of sleep and I'm 3 beers deep on 11/17/19. Take all those numbers and add 'em together and you get 53 which was my jersey number when I played football... ALSO tomorrow (11/18) my late pooch Heidi would've turned 15 which is, up until Knowing, how many Nicolas Cage movies I've seen. Cage, INCIDENTALLY*, was in a movie called 211 directed by York Alec Shackleton, who has directed TWO (count 'em) TWO one star movies (2, 1, 1) and also he has 3 names which, well, you should never trust someone with 3 names...
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I will say the premise is interesting which is about a professor finding a sheet of paper with a sequence of numbers that foreshadows future tragedies, and he wants to stop them before they happen. When going in, I was expecting something like Final Destination but no. It is its own thing.
Sadly, the script could have gotten a revision. Some things were pointless. For example, there is a scene where the professor's son gets upset saying he isn't a kid anymore when he's clearly like 9 or 10 years old. The line is dumb and so angsty. There is a plane crash scene with some small continuity errors and unrealistic aftermath such as survivors casually walking out the wreckage…
Knowing stars Nicolas Cage as a distraught father who comes across a mysterious paper containing a series of seemingly random numbers. But when put into certain sequences, the numbers translate to the dates of numerous tragedies and disasters around the world. Earthquakes, tsunamis, terrorist attacks, etc. Seeing that there are still 3 dates left, Cage scrambles to find a way to stop these events from occurring.
For a film with such a creative and promising story, it's such a shame that the results are very middling. The film's script is a bit of a mess that's constantly plagued by hokey dialogue and inconsistent tones. There are a lot of heavy sci-fi elements used to give an explanation for the numbers'…
Dumb but enjoyable. I'd like it a lot better if Proyas found a way to retcon it with his other movie Dark City.
Proyas is an interesting stylist - the plane crash is especially effective - but the emotional drama is totally bogus
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