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 Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment Wintergreen Productions Goldcrest
先知, Presagio, آگاهی, Cuenta Regresiva, Señales del futuro
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.
Had a laugh when Nic Cage demonstrated his alcoholism by pouring a glass full of scotch until it was overflowing. Had several other laughs but none of them as beautiful as that.
any movie: *uses Beethoven's 7th: 2nd Movement*
me: *adds 18 stars*
(lowkey this movie bangs and i love it as far as sci fi goes??? one take shots???? nicholas cage trying his best???? true cinema)
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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…
I'm probably overrating this by about a star, especially since the third act descends into some "Chariots of the Gods"-style sci-fi hokum, but parts of this effectively convey the pathos of being surrounded by national tragedy and disaster and being powerless to prevent any of it, a feeling I can remember being palpable during the Bush years. The harrowing destruction sequences push the limit of their PG-13 rating.
Featuring Nicolas Cage in full bark-at-the-moon mode, Alex Proyas' "Knowing" is an operatic and riveting science fiction-disaster flick whose full-volume sensibilities are tempered by a satisfying narrative. Finding the planet imperiled and Cage's protagonist there to do something about it, the work is engagingly overwrought and capably compelling.
Finding Earth wracked by all manner of disaster, "Knowing" revolves around Cage's professor as he pieces together clues predicting that next deadly event. Combining science and, perhaps, the supernatural, the sci-fi epic sees humanity's last stand being assisted by numeric prophecy and celestial interlopers.
Proyas builds a his production with equal parts bluster and mystery. Driven by the story's natural tension, an excitement develops that finds disaster set-pieces alternating with the film's…
Ben Mendelsohn is in this for 5 minutes and he looks so purty so I had to watch it.
It's not like I had a choice not to. As Spice Girls once sang, let love lead the way.
In this case that way led straight into the pile of dogshit.
Nic Cage playing an alcoholic, borderline negligent father and suspecting creepy shit is happening around him is really a sub-genre of its own, isn't it.
Seriously, Ben is in this so little Netflix doesn't even mention him in the cast. It's like these fucking people don't realize Bloodline and The Land of Steady Habits is 70% of the reason why I pay them (Pedro Pascal and Oscar Isaac content is…
The thought of Nicolas Cage playing a professor of Astrophysics at MIT would suggest this was a comedy, but Alex Proyas' science fiction thriller is actually a visually impressive film. Mixing hokum with a touch of science to create an interesting hybrid that turns into a thrilling disaster movie, Proyas' vision of the end of mankind is certainly entertainingly shot. Cage and Rose Byrne lead the cast here with two contrasting approaches to Cage's idea that Byrne's character's mother could predict catastrophic events and the resulting death-tolls for every disaster from the late fifties onwards. Told you it was hokum, and by the time you add the "whisper people" to the plot it really does take us to a whole…
Ok, I remember watching this film at a sleepover when I was 11 years old. We were all truly creeped out by Knowing and my friends mother got us good with an old-school jump-scare afterwards. Good times. Anyway, at the time I mistakenly thought Knowing was one of the coolest films ever, I was obsessed with the whole future-prediction thing and I couldn't stop thinking about it. Now I recognise Knowing isn't that good, but there is still a lot I like about this film weirdly, and I look back at it with very fond memories. 3/5
This is the least “crazy Nic Cage” Nic Cage movie I’ve seen and I’m just not here for it. Also, the movie isn’t great.
Reminds me of the “We want the numbers, Mason. That’s all we’ve ever wanted.” meme from COD Black Ops.
This film was okay until the last 20min. Some pretty unexpected graphic scenes and an overall sad tone that gets more and more prevalent.
A pretty memey movie due to the fact that it’s a Nicholas Cage movie so you just expect it to be so bad it’s good. I wouldn’t say this ever gets to those levels because honestly some parts of this movie are dark as fuck. The last 20 minutes rare just crazy and honestly sad, I wish it ended differently haha
He had to Google 9/11/01.... And then ‘We Will Never Forget’ pops up!
Honestly, this needed more scenes where a wasted Nic Cage just Googles atrocities and disasters and reacts accordingly.
lars von trier really just ripped off this whole shit with Melancholia didn't he
Ridiculous but fun. Even though it is crowded with flaws it is entertaining nonetheless.
Muy interesante, pero la trama tarda demasiado en avanzar y eso le pesa mucho, se pudo haber contado la historia en una hora.
Tiene algunas cosas que están muy bien pero otras están medio mal y hasta se sienten chafas. No se, se queda como a la mitad.
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