A strong premise... which epically fails.

Rating: 4/10 (27 March 2009)

I never really planned on seeing this movie. I'm not a huge fan of nicholas cage and his limited range of squinty facial expressions. However, after hearing some friends report on how 'awesome' it was, I decided to give it a shot.
The film begins beautifully, with Melbourne providing quite a good an admirable job at passing for Boston- my only clue was seeing Doug Peterson from Summer Heights High- and both visual effects and a plot which set up a dark mood, full of intrigue and possibility.
The film takes this on for a while, and for this time my only complaint was the badly photo-shopped image of rose byrne that appeared a couple of times, and a few awkward script moments that left many audience members laughing. Apart from a few unnecessary moments of foreshadowing, all looked well in the world of "Knowing." How, how wrong I was. Like in so many other films, it reached a point where I realised "This movie is going to have a really, really stupid ending." And I was right. It's almost as if the writer of the original story gave up on trying to create a quality ending, instead focusing on ridiculous and unsatisfying ways of bringing so many odd moments in the film together, combined with huge, but not always the greatest quality, special effects. This ending's stupidity is only compounded by rabbits, a ridiculous goodbye and an awkward and ultimately incomplete moment of family reconnection. Once it ended, the cinema was full of giggles and a few comments along the lines of "its about time it ended!" wait for the DVD, if you must watch it at all.