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…