Shyamalanning the audience to sleep

Rating: 3/10 (22 June 2009)

The thought alone of M. Night becoming a source of inspiration to other filmmakers gives me the creeps. That is, unlike the spooky kids, nerdy astrophysicists (pardon the redundancy) and high pitch "awe-inspiring" sounds that this movie abounds in.
While watching the first half of Knowing felt a bit like an early episode of The X-Files ("Conduit"), the movie on the whole did have this direct-to-TV feel to it, had it not been for the decent FX. Story-wise though, Knowing is a disaster on its own. It does redeem itself to a certain extent during the second half, but the damage had already been done by then.
If there's one thing that sets this one apart from the rest of the doomsday blockbuster pack, it may well be what it seems to postulate at the end of the 2 hr long drag. Namely, that fluffy white bunnies, when not butchered for their fur and/or meat, will earn their salvation. You'll have to see it and laugh it out to believe it.