Knowing How Stupid This Film Is.

Rating: 1/10 (21 May 2015)

Knowing (2009): Dir: Alex Proyas / Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Lara Robinson, Nadia Townsend: Ridiculous thriller about end times. A fifty year time capsule is opened at an elementary school but Nicolas Cage's son receives a paper scribbled in numbers that seems to predict major tragedies. Unfortunately it failed to predict the tragedy that would result in the releasing of this film to the innocent public. Lame concept surpassed by stupidity with albino figures appearing and a totally fake subway sequence. With special effects that bare all the excitement of a midnight run to the outhouse, it makes one wonder about the director. Alex Proyas is at his worst and that is a tragedy in itself considering that he previously made a visually stunning masterpiece called Dark City. Cage does what he can as a father concerned with his son but the role is standard and flat with an ending that has him watching his son go to a better place, such as onto the set of a better film. Rose Byrne overacts as the daughter of the author of those numeral scribbles. Chandler Canterbury and Lara Robinson also appear but nobody in this junk is making a career move that they will likely want brought up at a Hollywood party. It addressed the future but misfires horribly on delivering that message without being welcomed with laughter. It becomes a joke without the filmmakers "knowing" it. Score: 1 / 10