No to Knowing

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2009)

Knowing Nicolas Cage's lack of acting skill you have no expectations for this film. Knowing Cage's track record, there is a good chance this will be another bomb. Knowing all that---you are not disappointed---the acting is bad and the movie is garbage---and you KNEW it---Knowing is great.
Spoiler alert: Cage and his son acquire a document that has random numbers on it. Ala National Treasure---Cage figures what the numbers mean---don't know how or why he breaks this code---but he does without breaking a sweat. It seems the numbers predict every major disaster over the last fifty years. Why? Never really explained. Supposedly an alien race sent these numbers so future generations would hear their "whispers" and they could save them from the end of the world. Pretty stupid that they have to "whisper" in code every disaster for fifty years. Cage stumbles onto things and the aliens--who by the way have a HUGE ship that could save thousands---only want the "chosen" few and choose his son and a little girl. Now they brought all these super huge ships and put only two humans on board when they could have saved thousands upon thousands.
This movie was dumb and it got worse as it went. It basically was National Treasure meets ET. Cage figures everything out with no rhyme or reason like in National Treasure---then meets the benevolent aliens who will only save select people. Great saviors.
Another DVD to place a beverage upon.