KNOWING [2009] review
August 1, 2009 · Print This Article
I was highly skeptical about KNOWING, a movie with a poor IMDB rating, but a good endorsement from Harry, which should have made me not want to see it instead of confirming it as my Saturday night movie choice because I’ve been differing from him more and more lately.
I was getting the required satisfaction I expect from a Saturday night movie choice for about 75% of KNOWING. Then the movie abruptly stalled, pulled a gimmick out of the air (literally), and ended in destruction and fantasy. Neither were what I was wanting in an ending for the good buildup in the first 70% of the movie. Either go all bleak like a bad-ass movie from the 70s would, or wrap it all up with an everything is ok at the end ribbon.
I loved the concept of the numbers being connected to disaster dates. The first act was great, very creepy. The term “Whisper People” is totally creepy. What those whisper turn out to be, or how they show it specifically, is pretty lame and I just wonder if Nicolas Cage knew he was looking like a fool in that scene.
Basically KNOWING was a great premise with a very botched and jarring ending, with some fairly gruesome CGI disaster death scenes. I was surprised to see such graphic and detailed deaths in a PG-13 movie.
One other thing about this movie is it reminded me that I would never live in a house out all by itself in the woods. That’s just crazy. The only way I could possibly spend even one night in such a domicile is if I had that motion detecting machine gun perimeter defense system from Aliens.
Oh, and time capsules are cool. KNOWING as a movie in whole, leaves a bad taste in the viewer’s mouth, unfortunately.
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