A blatant and flawed plot, yet with some great disaster scenes

Rating: 2/10 (23 August 2009)

'Knowing' offers a lot more than it actually delivers.
The action scenes sure are great - both two mass disasters pictured in the movie is realistic, dynamic and enthralling. These two scenes are the very peaks of the movie, because the plot revolving around the disaster events are not much more than rubbish.
Three story lines we have here, offering all kinds of exciting events, like the aforementioned disasters, numerology, foresight, Apocalypse, weird men chasing children, and some mistycal Genesis/aliens combo. Really a lot to keep one nailed to the chair watching the movie.
Dozens before me have bashed the ending, claiming various religions to inspired it and that it was a cliché at best. But the problem is not here. With the ending it becomes clear that the three story lines do not merge together at all. Characters and events are thrown in this mix to make the story seem like it does mean something. It does not.