Terrifyingly disturbing emotionally hammering lavish prophetic science fiction

Rating: 9/10 (27 March 2009)

'Knowing' is one of the scariest, most horrific imaginative, deep, disturbing, emotionally wrecking sci-fi I have ever seen. The film is extremely well made, I loved the production values, marvellous special effects, wonderful sound, and soundtrack including Beethoven's haunting 7th symphony. The many layered plot is beautifully executed. Don't believe the critics. There is no biblical, or green or moral message being flogged. It does however highlight the fragility of what we have in the world and in our personal lives. It shocks us with explicit scenes of devastating carnage. My emotional buttons were hammered to the extent that I had tears. I found the people and animals being burnt to death, and smashed to smithereens agonisingly disturbing and extremely realistic. The crying and screaming mixed in with the mangling of flesh, metal and stone chilled me to the bone. I found the intervention by visitors scary and a sumptuous spectacle. Towards the end of the film the outlook for all gets hopeless and climaxes in cosmological catastrophe. The aftermath of the film left me feeling that an extreme event could so easily happen and whilst it could be predicted it would be inescapable. 'Knowing' is sci-fi heaven and a must see....