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Knowing (2009) Movie Review

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Director: Alex Proyas

Writer: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White (Screenplay)

Writer: Ryne Douglas Pearson (Story)

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 Plot: M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.  

Runtime: 2 Hours 1 Minute 

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review 

Story: Knowing starts when MIT professor John Koestler (Cage) sees his son Caleb (Canterbury) pick an unusual item from a school time capsule. The item is a mysterious list of numbers, but once he starts ticking his brain over them, he discovers something. John discovers they are dates and locations of disasters from the last 50 years.

Once John looks deeper into the number, he learns that not all disasters have happened. John sets out to stop the latest disasters from happening. However, the truth is even more shocking for John, and he learns more about the bigger position in life.  

Verdict on Knowing

Knowing is a sci-fi mystery following a professor that discovers a series of numbers that predicted disasters in the last 50 years. However, the list also includes disasters that haven’t happened yet. He looks to prevent the latest ones but finds out about a bigger problem nobody could have prepared for.

This is a movie that offers a big question about what you would do in the same situation. It makes bold decisions in how it handles the idea of seeing disasters before they happen. There is a massive battle to figure out what is happening. However, it is how the movie ends that will leave you shocked. 

Final Thoughts – Knowing is an ambitious, shocking sci-fi movie.

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Knowing (2009)

Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson, D.G. Maloney, Nadia Townsend, Alan Hopgood, Adrienne Pickering, Danielle Carter, Tamara Donnellan, Ben Mendelsohn

Starting in 1959 a new school decided to make a time capsule to be opened fifty years in the future. One class is asked to draw picture of things they imagine the future to be like. One child Lucinda (Lara Robinson) starts hearing voices and her message for the time capsule comprises of a set of numbers. Teacher Miss Taylor (Danielle Carter) is worried about Lucinda and when she goes missing a search finds her in a closest with her hands covered in blood.

Fast forward fifty years to the year 2009 John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) an astrophysicist and single father of Caleb (Chandler Canterbury). Caleb is partial deaf and as soon as the time capsule opens starts hearing similar voices. Caleb gets the letter that Lucinda wrote assuming its nothing he keeps it. Caleb uses videos of his late mother to help him fall asleep at night.

John having a drink and watching television and spills some and accidentally puts the glass on the letter unwilling circling some numbers. These numbers surprise him and he sets out on some research discovering that every disaster date and number of deaths on in a series. The morning after John discusses his findings with a fellow scientist and friend Phil (Ben Mendelsohn). Knowing there are three disasters yet to happen John sets out on his plan to find out how true these numbers are.

Meeting Diana Wavland (Rose Byrne) who is the daughter of Lucinda and her daughter Abby (Lara Robinson). John and Caleb start to get to know and start working together to stop a disaster happening. Caleb get haunted by The Stranger (D.G. Maloney) a man who keeps to the shadows and knows things which will be happening. We are left to wonder what disasters will be occurring in the next few months and who is the stranger.

Putting this against other disaster movies this can stand out being as its something different something we didn’t see coming. The action scenes are well constructed from plane crash to the train wreck. Not one of Nicolas Cage’s best performances but he doesn’t need to deliver to the high standards some other action movies he has starred in have asked for. The overall story will keep you guessing right up to the shock ending and must watch.

My rating 91%