Knowing isn't worth knowing.

Rating: 6/10 (27 April 2013)

Knowing. Knowing how to write a better movie would be better. I saw the movie, and it wasn't worth knowing. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad movie. It was pretty mediocre. There were a lot of WTF moments in the movie. A couple of plot holes that I'm still trying to figure out. This movie had potential, but there were some issues. The idea of having numbers that predicted terrible events happening could've been interesting, but the fact that people die in large numbers every day would mean a larger paper. Excuse me, movie, but in the whole frame of the death charts. Any number from 100 to 5000 is too much, compare to the number of large deaths of 5000 or more that would fit the paper more. The movie starts out when a time capsule is opened, and a boy find and read a paper with numbers. His widowed father Jonathan Koestler (Nicolas Cage), a professor of astrophysics at MIT, notices the numbers have a specific set of sequences referring to the times and locations of fatal disasters over the last 50 years, including 911012996 (the date and death toll of the 9/11 attacks) and the last three sets of digits are dated in the immediate future. Once again, in the world map, 2996 is pretty small amount of death compare to the world population that die on Sept. 11, 2001 outside of the event. On average day, 6,744 die in the US only, in the world 155,000 or more. Anyways, Jonathan seeks to try to prevention another tragedy. The movie has some of the best special and visual effects. The train and airplane scene alone is chilling and looks decently realistic in terms of effects. Still, having tested the supposition under controlled laboratory condition and double-checked the findings, I can confirm that yes it is indeed easy to laugh at a burning moose in one scene in the film. The acting is OK. Nicolas Cage's character is just Nicolas Cage. What is happening with Nicolas Cage's hair? You will realize his hair is growing in one seriously odd pattern starting about halfway back on his skull. Most of the movie, Cage will spent staring at things. The characters are just cookie cutter Sci-Fi channel composites. Director Alex Proyas did a good job at sticking true the film's Twilight Zone-ism premise without copping out. Another thing, if you are not very very religious, you might have another problem watching this movie. There is a lot of Biblical references that will have to get used to. I kinda dislike the psychological manipulation and propaganda by using sci-fi and suspense techniques to dishonestly deliver an ultimate message of one-sided religious salvation. Knowing can also means Scientology according to their beliefs, since Nicholas Cage is a confirmed Scientologist. The movie is up to interpretation of what it is trying to say. The twist of Knowing, well, without spoiling it, I would hardly even call it a twist. It's just the movie dumps out everything it did in the beginning and starts anew with this new situation, which has nothing to do with the numbers. Makes me wonder what happens if you were pregnant in this movie toward the end. What happens to you? The ending with Nicolas Cage and his father probably will make fathers cry and hold their children. When the movie concludes, I was like you got to be kidding me, and come on. Still, 'Knowing' is a good enough movie to enjoy. If only I could have seen the future I wouldn't have buy it, just rent it.