Kowing was a great disappointment !!!

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2009)

I will keep this brief...
I will not comment in length about this film as it doesn't deserve it.
At least Mr. Cage's "Treasure" films, like the Indiana Jones adventure series was somewhat tongue & cheek, this movie is dead serious, and so full of flaws I do not know where to begin. I will just say this......
Though the first half of the movie was at least suspenseful, the predictable and overdone ending ruined any merits this film may have had. The basic premise of the film was plagiarized from a few eps. of the TV series, "The X Files" and those who followed the series know exactly which eps. I mean. However, THAT was the GOOD part.
The ending was such was virtually the same, and had the same message as "Close Encounters", "Contact", and among many others, the recent remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" We have seen the same ending per se in scores of SiFi films and we don't need it beaten into out heads again and again....
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> > > The scene where the two children are shown on a distant planet, supposedly to start the human race over again was problematic in itself... We see the two children running in fields of wheat(?) and we see other "pods" containing it seems other children landing in the distance...
Call me a fool, but here are some questions that I do not understand, and it wrecked the movie for me...
With the alien spaceships the size of the state of Texas, why did they have to gather up the children by twos, each in their own pods? YES, along with the rabbits,
I did understand the allusion to Noah's ark, TWO BY TWO..but come on...that is such a waste of spaceships..
Or...another thought...were the children somehow paired up by the aliens?
This is TOO freaky.. !!!
So..the little boy and girl barely 10 years old are selected to be mated in order to populate their new planet?
Is that the Utopian future for our kids...to be selected into a predetermined "marriage" like the children of the LDS church, or Hindu and Muslim sects that believe in pre-arranged marriage?
Sorry...I rather they were burnt to a crisp...
And to be taken away from their parents???
What..there were no adults on the entire planet Earth worth saving?
Which brings me to another point.
Are the children to be left to their own devices, and possibly revert to "Lord of the Flies' mentality? Or are we to believe that the kindly aliens will see to their every need?
The children are still human, no alien agenda or influence can change that. No alien can guide into adulthood, a human child anymore than we should attempt to modify the lives of the mountain gorillas.
Another passing thought.
IF the spaceships are Noah's ark(s) and the planet the new Garden of Eden, the boy and the girl the new Adan and Eve, then it is still an implausible senerio that makes me want to gag...
The scene in CONTACT where Jody Foster meets the alien who is the visage of her dead father was schmaltzy, but at least it made sense...
Give me a break!!! I could write a few more pages about specifics, but I think that I have given enough examples to warn off any lover of good science fiction from this drivel...
Post Script: I originally typed this without reading any other reviews. Now, having read a bunch, I can see that I am not alone in the comments I made, nor in my condemnation of one of the worst SiFi flicks of all time.