Knowing

Genre: Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller

Language: English

Director: Alex Proyas (I, Robot)

Cast: Nicolas Cage(National Treasure: Book of Secrets), Rose Byrne (Troy) & Chandler Canterbury (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Runtime: 122 min

Plot:

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years.

Watched the movie on 10 April evening @ Filmgarde Bugis with Sylvia.

I was on alert during the whole movie. I am really not into any movies that scare me out. Although this movie is not a horror movie, the sound effects really freak me out!

I extremely like the 2 disasters scenes, which were so real that made me believe that the real thing happened. The aftershock after seeing these 2 tragedies made me realise that, Thank God I'm safe and sound till now! I couldn't imagine further...

Nicholas Cage did a reasonably good performance. His interaction with the kid actor was quite convincing. The fatherly touch towards his son, reminding him they will be forever together every now and then, no matter where or what happen, letting him go and assured him again. How many parents out there are willing to be apart with their children?

The ultimate message of this movie is probably the hot issue these days - Global Warming. If we were to continue wasting, the ending may probably happened to our Mother Earth. And our children of the future, what will happen to them? Although the movie lead to slight disappointment at the end, somehow we just couldn't blame the writers for making the ending that way as they probably already ran out of better ideas.

ah-deng says: 3½ /5 Would be good if the creativeness last till the end, but it was better than not "Knowing".