Knowing

Being a "use to be" Nicolas Cage fanatic I still usually watch everything he does, hoping he returns to glory. The films that make up his legacy are raising Arizona, The Rock, and Con Air. As of late his choicer of roles seems to be less about the film and more about staying active to pay for his lifestyle. Nonetheless, I remember the trailers for Knowing and thinking this may be it. This might just do it for his career. I was wrong. Great move, don't get me wrong, but he still hasn't recaptured his magic. Knowing is the story about a list of numbers. At first glance, it seems all too random. The list was comprised by an 8 year old little girl and sealed in a time capsule for the next 50 years. Once dug up it was given to a little boy name Caleb. Caleb's Father John (Cage) is a cynical professor at MIT. He feels there is no point and we are here, then we die. That's it. There is no changing things. If it's suppose to happen, it will. When Caleb shows the list to his Father, he doesn't think much about it. Then a group of numbers jumps out at him. It could be a date. He google's said date and a tragedy took place on that date. The numbers that followed the date on the paper he noticed were the exact number of deaths related to the tragedy. He spends all night typing dates and trying to debunk the list. He wants it not to be true, because the girl that wrote it 50 years earlier had predicted numerous future tragedies. For John this is a nightmare, but getting anyone to believe him is the worse part. Once all the dates have been processed, only three dates remain and they take place in the coming days. Unfortunately for his case, there are several numbers that are unaccounted for. He cannot figure out what they are. This is where it gets interesting. He figures out those extra numbers and knows he needs to try and save those victims. From this point another aspect is introduced that we are not sure about til the end. We also meet the little girl who wrote the list daughter (Byrne). She doesn't want to remember how crazy her mother was, but eventually can't deny it anymore. The clock is running out, and we find out very important things about the list in the last half hour of the film. It really keeps us guessing up until that point. I like how it ended, that is to say the first ending. This is a film with two ending. Not an alternate ending found on the DVD, but it ends and then someone thought it would be a good idea to drag it on for another 2 minutes and add an unnecessary controversial ending that was pointless. It should have ended then credits. It didn't ruin the whole movie for me, but I did question the thought process. Lots of spoilers I am not going to give away. I do recommend this film, because I think the reviews were too harsh.

NBM rates Knowing - Greatly Awesome

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