Eco – warning wrapped in Christian imagery

Rating: 4/10 (8 July 2009)

It is obvious now that the idea of the end of our dear planet is popular, but until now it seems to me that only R.Emmerich has got it right ( The Day After Tomorrow , 2012 ),older movies to be disregarded ( e.g. Meteor , The Earthquake ) ,as everything else is simply more or else vacuous , with a storyline that sends you shivering , or ,as this is the case with Knowing , has too much empty space in between three well-depicted scenes of disaster . The idea here is in the best vein of Nostradamus' predictions , here discovered on a piece of paper in the form of numbers that the main hero N. Cage decodes easily, realizing that it is about the dates of accidents and major disasters with the Apocalyptical end nigh and unavoidable ( the major solar flare , original !) , and the group of children ,hearing inexplicable voices ,his son , of course , being among , what turns out at the end ,the chosen ones , and having been selected by the 'angels' , sort of energy –looking creatures tasked to save specimens of humans and transport them to another habitable planet , and that scene is to be looked at closely ! Christian symbolism is here more than tangible ,but there is just too much empty walking,talking and soul searching,and Mr.Cage is just too darn extra dramatical ,tragic and glum. Why do a lot of H-wood movies have to have heroes whose darling ones are deceased ,and ,the new trend , having only one parent ,who has to be a scientist no less –watch The Day the Earth Stood Still and wonder, this is just too stale and boring ?! Visual side is acceptable ,but only three scenes ,done by unknown nosy upstarts, where the angels uncannily resemble the creatures from The Close Encounters of The Third Kind ,while the rest is monotonous cinematic boredom ! And a poor commercial for Mazda vehicles , and I strongly doubt that this film will do any good to the company in terms of sales !