One Thing Wrong With This Film

Rating: Null/10 (25 July 2011)

Okay, there are many things wrong with 'Knowing,' not least of all the casting of Nicolas Cage as an M.I.T. astrophysicist. Is there another actor alive who could OVERREACT to the end of the world?
Anyway, the main thing wrong with this film is the tremendous flaw in the narrative. Do you know why the whispering aliens (who looked like a warm-up band for Kraftwerk with a fog machine) planted all those predictions in the little girl's head in 1959, then had them discovered by Caleb in 2009? That is, do you know what the purpose was for all that torment, sturm und drang? Neither did the writers. There was no purpose. All the aliens had to do was rescue the children in 2009 before the big boom-boom from the sun. In fact, that is what they DID do. There was no reason for any of the other stuff, no reason for the ridiculous Cage to discover the prophecies, and no reason to see this bombastic, blustering mess of a movie.