Enjoyable... until the last 20 minutes!!

Rating: 5/10 (24 May 2009)

Brilliant direction, and special and visual effects!!! That what makes Knowing really worth seeing. As for the performance, Cage was as stiff as a wood log and Byrne was overacting all the time. Something else really sucked... the music! The background music had that Spieberg's alien hype all the way, I felt that I'm watching a 70s or an 80s flick. It was completely inadequate to the action-packed events. Concerning the storyline, I think it is really good and will have you at the edge of your seat... up till the last 20 or 30 minutes!!.. when everything goes crazy and inexplicable things happen. That's why in the last part, one can find a lot of plot holes. I didn't also like the mixing of the religious allusions- that gave me the creeps sometimes!!- with scientific fantasies; it tarnished the movie with a quite childish mark. However, I think Proyas did a great job with a quite worn-out but confusing end-of-days idea... leave alone some of the movie's scenes he masterly managed to make unforgettable.