Knowing was great....until the ending.

Rating: 6/10 (17 October 2009)

So Nicholas Cage is back with the latest offering with a combination of a sci-fi, disaster and puzzle movie, mixing the likes of The Day After Tomorrow, The Da Vinci Code and Independence Day.
This movie starts off very promising with a time capsule that is found buried, Cages son gets a piece of paper with just lots of random numbers on, but Cage works out that they show the times, dates and location of every major disaster in the last fifty years.
Throughout we see Cage in a panic trying to work out when the next disaster will hit and at the same time trying to protect his son from a bunch of strange people who don't speak English, it turns out there aliens.
All the way through I was on the edge of my seat with the story like what was happening? Who were these strangers hanging about Cage's son? What happens when the numbers on the paper ran out? There was plenty of excitement and tension and the acting was reasonable but then in the last twenty five minutes, the film just spiralled down here into lame superficial silliness. I was literally just sitting there and thinking "oh right" The ending (not to ruin for anyone who still wants to see this) just didn't make any sense. How it ended just isn't explained and it felt like a massive let down. I was originally going to give this a nine or ten out of ten but I felt so let down I had to give it less.
Other people I have spoken to about this film said the same thing. This was still a good movie and I enjoyed it, but it could have been spectacular which this wasn't.
If you haven't seen this yet and want to be prepared to be disappointed.