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04/23/09
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Knowing (2009)
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Reviews Counted:160
Fresh:52
Rotten:108
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Knowing has some interesting ideas and a couple good scenes, but it's weighted down by its absurd plot and over-seriousness.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Theatrical Release:25-03-2009
Synopsis: Nicolas Cage stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future—and sets out to prevent them from coming... [More]
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Ben Mendelsohn, Terry Camilleri
Director: Alex Proyas
Reviews for Knowing
... the movie features huge gaps in logic, and human behavior that can't even begin to be justified.
04/20/09
Presságio é o que Sinais e Os Esquecidos tentaram desesperadamente ser.
04/11/09
Trades occasional moments of inspiration for obvious allegory and second-hand action sequences that shoot for stark seriousness but can barely pass for pop spectacle.
04/07/09
Knowing's premise is intriguing, even if it ends up being a familiar race-against-time-disaster-movie.
04/07/09
The movie has all the thematic depth of a really great arthouse film wrapped in the action and excitement of a first-rate Hollywood action picture.
04/03/09
If... you want your 'sense of wonder' piqued, and are willing to contemplate some big and possibly alien concepts, this takes you to some unexpected places.
04/03/09
Rather like watching an intricately arranged set of dominos starting to topple. That's neat. I didn't see that one coming, you think, as yet another train carriage joins the pile-up.
04/03/09
The final message may be trite, even saccharine, but Knowing would be pretty well unbearable without it. Proyas has made a truly haunting and terrifying film.
04/03/09
I'm a bit on the fence with Knowing. It is well made, and bleak as hell, but just has a little too much going on for me to recommend it.
04/02/09
A mind-blowing blend of apocalyptic imagery and metaphysical discussion that is easily the best film of its type since "Southland Tales" (and I should stress that I mean that as a compliment).
04/02/09
Well done for 100 minutes; then it completely falls apart.
03/31/09
I like the sheer quantity of ideas in this film, but I am not sure that they all fit so nicely together. I expect with some thought the flaws will seem less important and the audacity of the plot will win out.
03/30/09
It predicts a future when people act courageously and selflessly to preserve their families and the future of mankind. I can get behind that.
03/28/09
Less mysticism or numerology, than really frightening spookonometry, and craftsmanship teeming with nightmarish imagery that takes your breath away, even with all sorts of outlandish premises afoot. ET, or rather EE with rabbits and a hearing aid.
03/27/09
As threats of annihilation go, the imperfect but effective Knowing presents its big picture with thoughtfulness and style.
03/27/09
The film's final third [is] a mélange of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Christian eschatology that will make you wish the film had ended 15 minutes sooner.
03/27/09
It has nothing but the most simplistic of insights, it mistakes mood for suspense, and even the special effects don't break new ground. A disappointing offering from one of Australia's most talented genre directors.
03/27/09
Proyas has once again taken an interesting piece of science fiction and turned it into an action movie, in which potentially interesting ideas get short shrift.
03/27/09
Despite burning his credibility card with a chorus line of cinematic crap, Cage seems to have (finally) picked decent material, and he turns in a solid performance here.
03/27/09
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