An Unusual Movie

Rating: 9/10 (25 March 2010)

If you have preconception about what a SF movie "should" look like, you might be disappointed. This movie is different, in that it asks a direct and specific question, maybe the mother of all questions: are we living with a purpose? Knowing kind of answered that question in a "SF" way. But just as the title "Knowing" tells us, we all know the answer, we just won't accept it!
Talking about the film "itself", I agree with Roger Ebert who was enthusiastic about the film, rating it four stars and ranking it "among the best science-fiction films I've seen—frightening, suspenseful, intelligent and, when it needs to be, rather awesome" in the Chicago Sun-Times. He continued, "With expert and confident storytelling, Proyas strings together events that keep tension at a high pitch all through the film. Even a few quiet, human moments have something coiling beneath. Pluck this movie, and it vibrates."