Knowing
M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule containing a cryptic message about the coming apocalypse and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
24 February 1978, Melbourne, Australia
1 June 1920, Melbourne, Australia
5 August 1988, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
22 February 1981, Queensland, Australia
1981, Australia
18 March 1950, Belleville, Illinois, USA
1949, Malta
23 September 1995, Australia
July 25, 2011
If those space-dudes are so friendly, why drive children insane with a bunch of weird code? Why not just show up on The Tonight Show and tell everybody the exact date and time? Lame! Also: Why fake Massachusetts? Why not just say: 'This is Australia.'
October 27, 2010
Knowing is about faith; the belief that one day the mysteries of the universe will be explained to us, and the knowledge that anything is possible.
September 29, 2011
A shotgun spray of metaphysics, cosmology, the Old Testament, flying saucers, angels, spooky blonde-haired men in black trench coats, mysterious little black rocks, two cute kids and a moose on fire.
March 23, 2009
If you want to know how inept the movie is...well, it's so inept that you may wish you were watching an M. Night Shyamalan version of the very same premise.
November 24, 2011
A damned entertaining movie despite the fact that it stars Nicholas Cage.
March 20, 2009
The movie begins shameless, grows stupid and winds up silly. If the ending had less of the air of a crackpot religion and more pretentiousness, you could almost call it Shyamalanish.
March 23, 2009
Things started to fall off of the deep end very quickly.
September 23, 2011
Suffice it to say that the last third is a mélange of Close Encounters and Christian eschatology, and you'll wish the film had stopped about 15 minutes sooner.
March 23, 2009
If Alex Proyas' Knowing were reasonably entertaining -- instead of just dour, pointless and tedious -- it would be a camp classic.
March 12, 2016
The impressively grim finale ensures that Knowing ultimately ends on a decidedly memorable note...
March 27, 2009
Mixing Spielbergian child-like wonder, disaster movie spectacle and the cod-religious silliness of M Night Shyamalan's 'Signs'. The premise is compelling, but the execution is over-cooked.
