My ticket said "Knowing" theater 17

Rating: 2/10 (5 April 2009)

Could have fooled me! I could have sworn by the end I was sitting in front of the screen down the hallway watching "Escape to Witch Mountain." Was there a writer's strike halfway through filming or something? The whole plot seemed to just get dropped in favor of special effects. Egads, this went from interesting to uh-oh to absurd to barf bag. The acting seemed OK for awhile but as the movie got worse and worse, so did the performances. I could almost see the director trying to get the little boy to cry at the end. And why do we always have to see New York getting wasted by some act of nature? How about Pyongyang or Riyadh next time, something we can cheer about? I'm a huge sci-fi fan, but this was garbage. I mean really now, the aliens looked like angels with wings for Pete's sake. And what's with the big tree? What's there, forbidden fruit for the kiddies?