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Rating: Null/10 (18 January 2012)

Sometimes, I really don't like Nic Cage, but sometimes I do. When I like him, I like him very, very much. In "Knowing" I like him very, very much. I like the plot, I like the characters, I like the special effects, the music, the cinematography, the locations... In short I really love this movie and what it has to say and the way it says it. Everything comes together in a seamless way, from the frantic Lucinda scribbling her numbers on a piece of paper, to the confluence of events that lead up to the denouement. Cage is a professor at MIT and he doesn't have time for silliness. But when his son receives the page Lucinda so intensely wrote for her school time capsule, Cage becomes intrigued and then very interested and then... There is much more to the plot than that, but in this case, less is more. I love science fiction movies that not only pull me into the story, but move me viscerally and "Knowing" does that.