100 ways to make a bad movie: Knowing movie review

Rating: 1/10 (23 June 2009)

The new thriller, Knowing is going to be useful for one thing in the future. That thing is to show film students the kind of movie you should never make. Nicolas Cage stars as Professor John Koelster, who upon teaching his students everything happens for a reason, picks up a paper his son took, and realizes the numbers on it show all of the major death crashes since the year the paper was made. The unrealistic part of this is that John would never actually recognize that the numbers of dates of death crashes. Rose Byrne comes in as Diana Wayland, a woman helping John. They have no chemistry at all. But what do you need good chemistry for when this movie is already this bad? The movie is admittedly creepy, it has some good crashes, and a creepy beginning, but the movie itself was so terrible it didn't matter. The movie's problem is it knows how to be creepy, but not how to be good. Towards the end, the movie becomes predictable. You know, but cannot believe what is about to happen. Be sure that you have enough of a brain in order to know to skip this one.