Waste of pencil and paper

Rating: 3/10 (29 August 2009)

Spoilers:
OK, this movie is not as bad as it seems. It's tense, intriguing, and ends in a spectacular way. The problem is that it doesn't make any sense. The director had to keep only the scenes with Lucinda writing her numbers, Nicolas Cage telling his story about the Sun, and of course the final episode in a Ronald Emmerich style. The rest is completely obsolete. Thus he could have give us only a 10-15 min movie, but save us from a high risk of mental damage.
Why were these numbers written? The two children were to be taken anyway. There was no point of Lucinda writing these numbers, she just wasted her pencil and a sheet of paper. Everybody died anyway, Nicolas Cage did not save anyone, Diana died exactly on the day predicted by her freaky mother.
And, many people may have missed that point, but this was not a happy ending – two kids and two rabbits (presumably female and male) cannot repopulate a planet because of the "minimum viable population (MVP) size" law. So this new beginning in an Eden-like world was mildly speaking, naive.
Why were exactly these children chosen, why could only they hear the "whispering" people? No explanation.
How an astrophysicist (Nicolas Cage) could think that a small country house would save him from a global disaster? Some positive sides of the movie: as I already mentioned it's intriguing, but the end spoils it in almost the same way the final pages spoil the John Wyndham's "Chrysalids". Also, the irrational Diana's actions and behavior at the end were quite logical for a woman in such a situation. Nicolas Cage and Rose Byrne (I still remember her role in "Troja") played quite well, the special effects were OK. But all this cannot save the day for "Knowing" and it doomed itself just like it doomed the world. With a breathtaking, but unavoidable ending.