Are you kidding me?...

Rating: 5/10 (10 January 2016)

It was with some skepticism that I sat down to watch a Nicolas Cage movie, but the synopsis for "Knowing" did seem appealing. And I will say that Nicolas Cage actually did a good job in this movie.
The story is about a professor (played by Nicolas Cage) whose son (played by Chandler Canterbury) gets a mysterious sheet of paper filled with numbers as the school unearths a 50 year old time capsule. The numbers turn out to be an ominous forewarning of deadly events.
I liked the build up of the movie, and director Alex Proyas actually managed to keep up the suspense throughout the course of the entire movie. However, when the movie comes towards the ending, everything that was built up came crashing down so hard and fast that the movie went from being good and fell deep into mediocrity. It was just painful to witness, and it was such a ridiculous turn of events.
The acting was good and the characters had depth and seemed very real. The effects were good, although this wasn't an special effects driven movie, mind you. The scene with the destruction of the city was really nicely made, and it looked realistic, and that was one of the highlights of the movie.
It was a shame about the ending and just seemed so very unlikely and unrealistic. I was actually laughing at the movie with the turn of events that the movie took towards the end.