Review of 'Knowing'.

Rating: 7/10 (14 April 2009)

Recently me and a few others went to see it and I enjoyed it, well, most of it. It was highly entertaining and exciting throughout five sixths of it or so. One of the aspects I loved was the way that Lucinda was in a sort of trance while writing the numbers franticly. Actually, she seemed like she was in a sort of trance all the time. I also loved the way that the numbers became the information (date, amount killed and location) to the disasters. The modern world is filled with disasters such as what happened in the movie. (Plane crash and terror, not really the whole world dying and aliens thing.) One of my favourite scenes had to be when the plane crash. It was so exciting and sudden and although the movie wasn't a horror as such it was frightening and intense. I loved the camera angles used then, it almost seemed like it was a live news report or something as the police just suddenly duck down, the camera swung round and you seen the plane crashing to the ground.
It was turning out to be a great movie until it entered that last part. I would personally advise anyone going to see it to leave the cinema just as Nicholas Cage is exiting the car beside the empty car that the children were taken away in at the clearing in the forest. After that bit it becomes extremely off what the rest of the movie was like and makes a dramatic turn into a sci-fi. I didn't like the ending one bit. It seems as if it has been written in an extreme hurry over a couple of beers and a few episodes of 'Star Trek' or something.
Apart from the terrible ending it was a very good movie and I think due to the thrilling and dramatic start it deserves the seven stars I have given it.