Visceral, exciting, heartrending, and philosophically stimulating.

Rating: 8/10 (24 March 2009)

Despite an inexplicably low rating from the critics, 'Know1ng' doesn't just transcend a genre's trappings, it gives them a shotgun blast to the metaphorical face. The strength of the film is not in its special effects, its plot, its performances, even though each of those elements are represented very well. The strength is that it takes a philosophically intriguing concept- determinism -and shows the personal effects of it. God is implied, but not overtly attributed with control of the universe, because this isn't a disaster movie about the why or the how, it is a profoundly intimate portrayal of the end of the world. The audience gets a sense that it is coming, and they just have to deal with it. Very disturbing, unsettling material, superbly shot and scored. I will be revisiting this film again and again.