An extraordinary film

Rating: 9/10 (3 December 2015)

"Knowing" is quite underrated and deserves more than a 6.2. But, alas, it is highly intelligent science fiction, and that limits its range of appreciation. It is profound on many levels and has one of the most extraordinary endings in film history - a perfect recipe of plot, graphics, music and implications. In addition to the ending there is one other scene both spectacular in its presentation as it is surprising. While such a scene has been done in other films, none have done it better.
It takes exceptional writing skill to create scripts of great intellectual power while still appealing to a mass audience. Those who possess such skill include the Wachowski siblings, creators of the hugely successful "Matrix" series, which made them enough money they could create a vanity project, "Cloud Atlas," even more complicated than the "Matrix" series. The money was needed as "Cloud Atlas" lost a bundle.
For various reasons the American audience in the collective is not getting smarter. How to make films, particularly scifi films, with great scope and depth and at least break even?
Fortunately, "Knowing" was frugally budgeted and made some money, helping to ensure there may be more films at this level of sophistication.