Plot holes, intuitive leaps and religious innuendo?

Rating: 3/10 (29 March 2009)

If, like me, you expect to see a movie about Cage running around trying to prevent incredible heart-stopping disasters from occurring before they happen (as any logical plot would of taken), you're going to be sorely disappointed.
I've seen a number of films where I expected one thing and got something else entirely. While that's not always a bad thing, sometimes the alternate path turns out to be ruinous. Such is the case with "Know1ng".
First off, the way in which Cage's character first comes to realize the list is more than just a list of random numbers requires an ENORMOUS amount of forgiveness on the part of the viewer (Cage *just happens* to pick THAT particular sequence of numbers and JUST HAPPENS to break them up in a way that looks like dates without ACTUALLY breaking the numbers up into dates (clue: there is no "91st" minute, hour, day or month, so why did he separate it that way??? No logic behind it.) He's an MIT professor, so I guess we're not supposed to be smart enough to understand his thought pattern? Then Cage's character makes some intuitive leaps based upon mere coincidence. One or the other would already require a suspension of disbelief, but PLEASE don't compound them. Believing one coincidence is bad enough.
The final disastrous straw is when the movie moves headlong... and entirely unnecessarily... into Religious innuendo. I won't spoil it for you if that's the kind of thing that might attract you to this movie, but "Know1ng" turns out to be a vehicle simply for pushing "Chri-Fi" (religious science fiction).
All-in-all, an enormous disappointment. The movie could of been a great action flick but instead tries SO hard to be something it's not, that it eventually becomes something else entirely. If you're still curious, wait for the video.