Movie Review: "Knowing" (2009)

Knowing... More like Know Nothing.

Another Nicolas Cage gone bad. I've decided not to see this movie the second that I've seen the trailer for it in the theater. The film deals with an MIT professor, John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) discovering a paper containing... umm... "codes", which indicates every single disaster that happened, is happening, and will happen.

The movie has a very cliche background setup: a widowed man who has lost his love in a tragic accident, and a precious little boy, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), who has to live with his depressed father and has to hide his longing for his mother.

I understand that John is supposed to be depressed, but does he have to drink liquor every other minute? The bottles were shown so frequently throughout the movie, I thought I was watching a commercial. I just wanted to yell at the television, "You are a sad alcoholic! I understand!"

Honestly, I haven't paid attention to the movie at all because of its drooping flow and transitions that made the entire experience ever so dreadful. I see that the director was trying to set the mood of the scenes through the looooooooooooooong transitions and eerie music... but it just doesn't work if it happens each and every time when a change in shots happen.

The way John figures out the codes do not bring any excitement to the audience whatsoever either, since the audience already figured that out when they saw the trailer! The numbers on the papers aren't actually codes of some sort, but just a straightforward alignment of dates, deaths, and locations without slashes, commas, or dashes. Seriously, it does not take an MIT professor to figure that out.

Things that were mind crushingly hard to figure out was the god damn "whisper people" and their fucking pebbles (excuse my language). So, at the end of the movie they reveal who the whisper people are but the pebbles that the whisper people leave everywhere doesn't get any explanation at all, and it is enraging as hell considering the fact that these stupid rock things took at least 10 seconds of screening time each scene they appeared.

If there was one thing that was cool about this movie, it would be the CGI. There are couple of really great scenes that is definitely enjoyable... except that burning moose that runs out in slow motion...

I am just not sure how to make a proper review of this movie, on the fact that I wasn't able to pay my full attention due to many factors, and without too much spoiler (because there are so many details I hate about).

I'm giving this movie a one star rating.