Watch it.. but only once..

Rating: 6/10 (14 August 2009)

I just watched Knowing this morning on my computer and I'm a quite disappointed actually. At the beginning I got caught by the mysterious tension and the numbers which reminded me a bit of Joel Schumacher's The Number 23 staring Jim Carry.. I like those kind of movies. Most of the film was entertaining and unlike many other movies I wasn't able to predict what was going to happen next more than a couple of times but I think that's because I had a very different picture in my head. Suddenly at the end of the movie (about 1h40m) I realized what all the mysterious numbers, the whispering people, the picture in Lucinda's house and so on was referring to.. once again Christianity. I must admit I like this alternative view of what we know as 'God' and 'angels' is actually aliens or the other way around. But the moment the aliens got lost of their human cover and turned out to have some sort of light-wings the picture (which was already a bit cracked) burst and got completely destroyed when Caleb, Abby and the other 'Chosen Ones' (might be animals?) got placed on a new planet with a big tree. I don't know if it's just me but I think the film got ruined after mixing religion into it. The idea is okay actually quite good but the way it's used here I don't like. It's written too bold. I was hoping for a mysterious or just sad ending (yeah alright most of the world dies but I don't see this as a 'main-ending') that would have been at the same level as the rest of the story. I'm not a religious person, I believe in facts and theories attached to logic but I'm not denying the existence of something else. Actually I think some watchers of this movie would find it disturbing because of their faith. But back to the movie. The visual effects is really nice most of the time and the acting is all right and therefore this movie gets 6 stars after all.