intense but not special

Rating: 6/10 (16 November 2009)

Knowing is an original story, doesn't have a happy ending (I start from the end because the finale makes it anomalous) and seems like a bunch of great ideas shoved into one another, tied up with tape. Nevertheless everything gets somehow to stay working; there are some holes in the plot (but every sci-fi and horror film is full of clichés) but the director knows well how to make the movie creepy. It's partly a fun thriller, partly a dark tale that talks about regret and mortality. Nicholas Cage isn't probably in a good shape, maybe he was never meant to be a leading man in an action-adventure film but in this case was really a lot below his usually high profile performances. The story grips the attention for its showing a lot of screaming, running around and scaring (the subway scene's truly gruesome), on the whole it works, in spite Cage's non convincing acting.