Now, I know, and unfortunately, knowing was half the battle

Rating: 3/10 (21 March 2009)

Wow, I read what others wrote about Nicolas Cage's performance in 'Knowing' and I have to agree. He was laughably awful in this movie. He had multiple "Keanu Reeves" outbursts that cracked me up. I don't agree with what a lot of critics are saying that he didn't deserve his Oscar for 'Leaving Las Vegas'  oh, he sure as heck did. Unfortunately, he's picked a tremendous amount of stinkers since then. Including 'Knowing.' Though, not a terrible movie, but it's nearly two hours (and you'll feel every bit of them) and I saw many scenes that could've been easily cut. I kept trying to calculate between 30-45 minutes that should've vanished and have a better movie to show for it. The movie is about extreme coincidences, such as a paper of numbers that indicate upcoming (well, from 1959, that is) catastrophic events that just happens to fall into Cage's son's hands. If it isn't enough that there are roughly 168 proved events on the page, they leave us with 3 "final" ones for the movie to unravel. The so-called plot attempts to intertwine religious and alien concepts together, but unfortunately anyone who's familiar with the Bible "knows" that it's heavier on the alien side and has absolutely nothing to do with scripture. It was extremely unfortunate that every time the (2009) 'Day the Earth Stood Still' aliens showed up, I had to laugh out loud. Not to give away the ending, but it was a long 2-hours when it ended on such an easy note for what the aliens wanted. And not a huge fan of Cage's 'National Treasure' series, they were a much better viewing of putting pieces together than this lazy effort of numbers.