the whole world burns... but take the bunny rabbits?

Rating: 3/10 (5 April 2009)

the movie Knowing... well the trailer pretty much sums up all the parts that make sense and the rest of the movie lets just say didn't flow well (for me) I left wondering if maybe Nic Cage's character would have been better played by Dennis Quaid... or ANYBODY else for that matter. Nic Cage's acting talent is extremely wooden and limited... see Ghost Rider for a detailed look at his stiff acting abilities.
It's not that knowing the numbers equal various dates and death tolls of worldwide tragedies was that hard to figure out, no, apparently you can figure it out over the course of one long 6 hour sleepless night. What makes less sense is that Nic Cage's kid Caleb keeps being visited by "the blonde people who whisper" and apparently these people leave little black stones (the adults all think the stones are scary) It was here that I lost it because the blonde people are actually an alien race (of alien angels?) coming to abduct the children in their spaceship... uh Kay. These alien/angels allow the children to come with them but without their parents (in one scene they ATTACK the father with light and a shriek emitting out of their mouth...but they get to bring along little white rabbits instead? The girl that originally wrote down all these end of days numbers is Lucinda, and she's nuts. She stares off into the stars wondering WTF is going on (although the real movie hasn't started yet so what is she wondering about???) later on in the movie, Nic Cage's son Caleb also begins to write down numbers in the EXACT same nutty psychotic manner that Lucinda did (now remember when she did it in the 1950's, it was important and drove the plot forward) when Caleb does the exact same thing, the father realizes that Lucinda's final longitude/Latitude numbers were written on the back of a gym door back in the '50's and completely ignores all the numbers that Caleb was writing... uh Kay. (oh OK so the world is about to end and they are panicking left and right but still...) in the end the world is destroyed by a sun flare but not before the blonde whispering people forcefully kidnap the two children and herd them into their spaceship to "reseed" another greener peaceful planet, anyway... the earth burned up good and Nic Cage burns with it... why even give him the numbers at all if there's nothing he can do to stop it from happening? Apparently the whole point was for Nic Cage to deliver his child to the aliens to be whisked away to a far off planet with a tree (is this the Biblical Garden of Eden?)and rabbits, while he burns to a flaming crisp with EE (EE =Everyone Else according to Lucinda).
Some people in our theater started to clap.. until they realized nobody else was clapping.. the boy's father and the girl's mother were both dead along with the entire planet Earth and the children were abducted by space aliens to reseed another alien planet...with bunnies.
The End.