Knowing DVD: Review By Diaigma

Quick Rent Review:

What would happen if you came across a mysterious piece of paper, filled with random numbers that could predict the time and place of a terrible, tragic events? Freak out? Get paranoid? Start drinking? Nicholas Cage does all this and more in this promising, but ultimately compromised film. The premise is cool, carrying with it the feel of a solid thriller, but this is just a flashy, attractive mask to a flat film with as much Scientology undertones as Battlefield Earth, only more blatant in its overall composition. It's like going to see Happy Feet, a movie about dancing penguins, only to find out its an environmentalist movie, aching to shove an agenda into your mind. Films like that and this turn me off. It talks down to you and does not enlighten.

While the special effects are good, with a terrifying and realistic airplane crash (to a degree, since I don't think a crash like that would merit so many walking survivors), you feel nothing for the characters, not even the kids. The film moves along as if everyone's going to die in the end . . . wait . . .

If you want a good laugh with your friends, Knowing is a decent B movie to roast, as I did, and not at all one to be taken seriously. Now you know.