Better Than Average Science Fiction

Rating: 8/10 (21 March 2009)

This posting is about the ending, so reader beware.
The movie makers designed the space ship and aliens after the Biblical visions of Ezekiel. He wrote of four beings shaped like men standing beside "wheels within wheels". There are strong allusions to the Bible and Ezekiel in the movie. Also following Noah's flood, God says that the next time the earth is destroyed, it will be by fire.
I can't help but compare the final scene of "Knowing" with the ending of "Battlestar Galactica". The survivors are left to start over on an Eden-like planet (though on Galactica it is an early earth). They retain none of their technology but are starting over from zero. Memories of their former life will be handed down and form the basis for new religions or mythology.