Not sure how to take, Knowing.
Well I just got done watching this movie and I'm really not sure what to make of it. Is it a thriller on an X-Files line or is it more on the religious side with, Adam and Eve and the world making over again. I felt that it was more of a... (read full)

3/4  Not good in an awesome way
Typical Nicolas Cage film - interesting concept yet poorly executed, decent actors but bad dialogue, great special effects but a big what-the-hell ending. It may sound like I didn't like this film at all, but I loved every single minute o... (read full)

3/4  Unwanted Feelings
Has a hold on you from begging to end. Interesting plot, believeable scenarios, and it moves towards intense on the thrill meter at certain points. The only problem, if any, that I encountered was the ending. You get all built up and th... (read full)

3/4  Go see this one!
I am so glad I saw this movie in the theatre! The first half was a little too slow and drawn out at some parts with stuff we've all seen before, but towards the end and the conclusion I was so thrilled and amazed at the surprising plot.
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2.5/4  The More You Know...
The problem with Knowing is that is builds up this great head of steam, even with a dearth of average performances, then makes a sudden shift at the end that almost destroys the everything that has come before it.

There are a lot of thi... (read full)

2.5/4  Knowing
First of all, despite what you may have read or heard. This is NOT a bad film. It's actually a good one. It has a strong story, watchable (not great) performances, and for the first hour, its damn entertaining. Its a shame, and this is no ... (read full)

3/4  Knowing Quick Review
It was an ok movie. The ending was 50/50 for me.

1/4  Knowing Quick Review
ending, adam and eva? no way. this movie is really suck.

3/4  Knowing Quick Review
If only the ending was better then it would have been one of my favorites. Still it was pretty good. 100% worth watching

3/4  Knowing Quick Review
I did not expect that ending! The last 20 minutes took me by surprise. I was waiting for the predictable, classic ending, *shock*.

2/4  Knowing Quick Review
Better than anything M. Night. S has put out in the last 5 years. Like all Proyas films, this has some great vision and some cool concepts. Still, it is his worst and I expected more. Mostly due to me despising Nic Cage. Not terrible.

3/5 I just saw one about 2012...
  by R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
Apocalyptic sci-fi with aliens are pretty popular with
the global warming happening before our eyes.
I kind of enjoyed this "whispering" prediction
and calling of the chosen type movie.
The Mayan calender with it's 2012 date is based
on a long term observed solar cycle.
There in no real evidence that there will be a
spike in activity at that date. Actually we seem to be
in a time when the solar cycle is resetting to a low point.
If such a movie makes people think,
it may well be a good thing,
like the flying saucer movies of the 50's.


1/5 Dreadful!
  by David Stokes
Basic idea behind this film - believe in god, go to heaven; don't believe in god - burn in hell. Not that heaven looks all that appealing, if it's inhabited by sinister non-talking angels who frighten you half to death. The production budget must have been high, but the acting is flat, the premise is incredibly flawed and unbelievable (not to mention boring), and you're left at the end wondering if that's all there is - a scary Eden. If you like fire and brimstone and the idea that nonbelievers, despite being fellow human beings and decent people, all burn in hell, you'll probably like this awful film.

4/5 I Liked This Movie
  by Tyler Atkins (Olympus Mons, Mars)
Actually, I really liked this movie. I found it thought provoking, interesting, intense at parts and I actually like movies that have endings like this.

I think the religious undertones in this movie don't really detract from it as much as they make you think about where exactly we draw the line between proof and believing in something that we can't explain. I personally believe that science and spirituality share more common ground than either side might realize, although I consider myself an agnostic. I don't know if I'm right or not, and don't want to spoil the ending, so I'll just say that I looked through it with more "Sci-Fi" lenses than spiritual ones and really enjoyed the movie and the ending.

Go into it with an open mind and see if you like it. I know several people who really enjoyed it, and some people who were really turned off by it who normally have similar tastes to myself.

I'm giving it 4 out of 5 stars because I think it doesn't really hold up to a lot of repeat viewings but it makes a good rental, just to roll the dice and see if you're one of the ones who enjoys it.

4/5 Very interesting!
  by Khaled Altaher (Riyadh, NA Saudi Arabia)
Nicholas age's son, at the school ceremony of opening a 50 year time tube that includes imaginative drawings of the future made by school children 50 years ago, picks up a paper full of random numbers instead of a drawing in his case. Nicholas Cage examines the numbers to discover that they are not random whatsoever. They are dates and coordinates of future disasters. Using his discovery, he tries to stop future disasters from happening, only to discover that its not in his hands.

Very different kinda movie. I cannot give more details in order to avoid ruining the plot. This is the kind of movie that you should watch without having any hint on what to expect.



2/5 The Sun has a lot to answer for
  by H. Schneider (window seat)
Comparing this science fiction/ghost thriller to the rather ridiculous apocalyptic movie 2012, I notice disturbing parallells. My hunch: somebody in the US is driving a campaign against the sun, who is finally taking the blame for everything.
That can't possibly be right, especially since there seem to be people around who believe this kind of thing. This is anti-enlightenment and anti-science packaged in scary entertainment! Some even talk about spirituality. I can't discuss this here without giving away too much of the plot.

Had I not just watched 2012, I might have said: ok, a partly not so stupid story about clairvoyance and strange happenings, one might have taken it for an average Stephen King movie. Compared to 2012 it is, I thought for a while, not so stupid, if you like the genre (numbers, predictions of disasters, whispering voices, children apporached by shady beings...). There is even a pseudo-intellectual touch when the professor played by Cage (actually not badly) discusses determinism vs randomism in class, and admits that he is a randomist and then, of course, he has to give up all his scientific creeds.

In the end, it seems to me, this is part of a pattern of apocalytpic thinking, that can't be welcome. Some toying with esoterics can make for entertaining movies, but here we are going over the top.
In case that somebody still wants to watch this and wants to preserve the 'suspense', I abstain from going into further detail.

Let me just say as my personal conclusion: this is fascistoid, anti-scientific, racist brainwashing!