Haha.

Funny, funny.

Enjoyable, fun and good movie.

More coming soon.

Score: 4 out of 5

The review for the new(ish) Nicolas Cage movie “Knowing” is now up, and you can find it below. Scroll on down to see what we had to say about it.

This is our review of the new Nicolas Cage release, Knowing.

"Knowing" Movie Poster

Knowing is an interesting movie; it plays on the public’s love of disaster films, while also mixing this with a number of elements that don’t usually get combined. We come into this movie with the understanding of impending disasters that have been predicted by a series of numbers a little girl wrote on a piece of paper, 50 years ago.  For the first hour or so of the movie, that’s exactly what we get, and oh, are the visuals entertaining, if not entirely disturbing.

As the film opens we get a not so brief introduction to the little girl who writes all the numbers down and why she wrote them, but not how.  This whole scene wasn’t exactly interesting, much of it could have been cropped down and visited through recounts and flashbacks that take place later.  One of the reveals in the movie would have been much better had this approach been taken.  The interaction between the teacher and her students in the classroom is fun, but when the time comes for the teacher to show her concern for a child gone missing, I can’t say I really believed her.

Cut to 50 years later, John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), a professor at MIT, in the backyard with his son.  We find out over a series of scenes that John’s son, Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury), is hard of hearing, John’s wife if dead, and the two live alone.  John clearly doesn’t believe in everything happening for a reason, as we learn through painfully obvious character development.  Which is made even more poignant when we find out, by way of his sister, that he comes from a very religious family, headed by his reverend father.  A decent amount of time is spent on this, mostly with John’s sister trying to convince him to talk with his father, as they have not spoken to each other in some time, by John’s choice.

Once John discovers the pattern created by the numbers, thanks in part to his drinking habit, he looks into it at great length, finding there truly is something to the numbers.  John does not fully give into this until he happens to be an eye witness, seemingly by chance, to the crash of an airliner.  This is one of the most impactful moments of the movie, which is saying something good for the special effect, but not so good for the overall film itself.  The visual of this crash is an awesome one, and I don’t mean Ninja Turtles “Awesome!” either.  John wanders into the wreckage in a shocked disorientation, trying to help anyone he can, this is where the scene get truly disturbing, as we see people screaming for help, running aimlessly, all the time set ablaze.

This leads John to believe that there is more to the list of numbers than simply predicting everything, that there is a greater connection to everything.  John takes this new theory and seeks out the daughter of the little girl who wrote the numbers 50 years prior, Diana Wayland, played by Rose Byrne.  Diana of course doesn’t believe John at first, but after another spectacular disaster, at which John is present, she comes around.

Rose Byrne and Nicolas Cage in "Knowing."

Together they do the usual digging to figure out what’s going on with all of this, and why they are connected to it.  This is where the movie really departs from the expected road, and the different elements start to come together.  Over the course of the movie, John’s son and Diana’s daughter have been repeatedly visited by a group of men only referred to as the “Whisper People.”  It’s immediately clear from the introduction of these characters that they’re not entirely normal.

The last third of the movie is spent trying to learn what the final disaster is, and preventing it, if at all possible.  At this point it feels like the thought process behind the writing of this movie was, what if we took one of the “… Movie” movies (Scary Movie, Disaster Movie, Superhero Movie, etc.) and made it a high budget suspense movie.  This really stems from the “Whisper People” going from supernatural omnipresent observers, to aliens, to what seem to be angels.   Maybe angel-aliens?  Or they could be implying that what have been considered angels throughout history, were in fact aliens who seeded the Earth long ago; and this seems to most likely to be the true idea here, judging from the Adam & Eve/Garden of Eden ending.

The final event listed within the numbers is, once again, quite the visual, but not as impactful as the plane or train crashes featured earlier in the movie, it just lacks the personal touch the first to events have.  John’s final moments with his family was a nice touch, I think I would have been really upset had they not given his character this ending.

Overall I liked this movie.  It was entertaining and leaves you with an interesting idea to think about.

Score: 3.5 out of 5

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