Better Off Not Knowing -

Rating: 4/10 (30 January 2013)

I like Nicolas Cage. I liked his movies "National Treasure" and "Ghost Rider," but I'm not sure how I feel about this one. It's a creepy story involving a seemingly random series of numbers that predict tragedies, and that is about as far it should have gone because the rest of it goes where no movie should go. The numbers were transcribed by a psychic young girl and placed in a letter in a time capsule. Cage somehow inexplicably discovers the numbers predict disasters, and immediately one realizes, "He's got too much time on his hands." But then individuals who may or may not be from the government take an interest in his deaf son who is now "hearing" the voices that the young girl in the Fifties heard. Just when you think you have this movie figured out, it throws you for a loop and then you hope to God you're wrong. I'm sorry, but I'm not a fan of disaster movies where the whole cast gets killed off. Bottom line: "The Knowing" is like a highly cerebral serial killer movie powered by the cosmic energies of the universe and a very disturbing plot. If you are a highly neurotic person, I would not watch this movie. I saw it, and I'm still disturbed by it.