"By the numbers" but not bang average

Rating: 4/10 (19 January 2020)

'Knowing' sits astride two genres, being in part a disaster film and a mystery-suspense film; it's a combination that does have a certain impact on the mind even if 'Knowing' uses middlingly unoriginal characterizations and largely obvious plot conventions.
If you have seen films in the vein of 'The Mothman Prophesies' then you will feel readily orientated for watching 'Knowing'.
Oddly unrelated acting performances from the cast, almost as though the actors had been performing seperately only to be composited together in post production, is possibly because of the directing but I suspect that this film has been very heavily edited and re-edited.
This would explain the quite jarring genre jumps, certain plot holes, unexplained plot strands and story points that aren't explained....an example being: how does Nicholas Cage's lead character know the death toll prediction of the first disaster if the pattern of uncircled numbers in the number sequence are still a complete mystery to him as we would be lead to believe at that point? I suspect serious editing after shooting is the reason for so many jumps and joins.
However the film does mix it's genres with some effect, the final disaster I found interesting in its scope and in its depiction and Cage often brings a liveliness to his role that almost humanises his character here.
Therefore I personally rate a fairly complimentary 4/10....I'm not sure why I liked this but I did find something in 'Knowing' that I liked. If only I knew why.....