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When Knowing starts you’re thinking.
Alright! It’s Nicholas Cage, it’s
some weird science-fiction stuff,
and it looks a little eerie with
some scary parts in it too. And then
you think again, wait a minute… it’s
Nicholas Cage in a science fiction
movie with a few scary moments. Ugh.
Not good.
Nicholas Cage plays John Koestler in
the movie. A widower professor at
MIT that lost his faith in God when
his wife died and thus lost his
relationship with his minister
father. His son Caleb discovers a
set of numbers in a
very predictable fashion and
John becomes obsessed with these
numbers when he sees that they all
mean dates and locations of where
horrible things happened and where
horrible things will happen. Cage
rushes around trying to stop these
things from happening through the
movie. And that’s really what the
movie is.
Cage does a good job in this movie
and that’s always his constant. He’s
been in some awful flicks with the
pinnacle of awfulness being Next.
This movie is a lot better than Next
and a lot better than about half of
his previous work but it still
sucks. Cage always does movies like
this but he never does a bad job
with movies like this.
Without spoiling the movie for
anyone out there who wants to watch
it. The script is bad... but not
that bad. Direction of the film
turned out to be awful with some
terrible shots that yes are
extremely shameless. This is even a
movie that is vastly over-scored.
There’s too many low end orchestral
parts in the flick, it makes it seem
like a bad episode of CSI.
A terrible and predictable ending,
some awful sound, a few moments of
shameless shots, and just a poor
idea for a script with Nicholas Cage
in it makes this movie bad. It’s not
the worst movie I’ve ever seen but
it falls short on so many levels
that it’s hard to validate watching
it
more than once… In many cases just
once.
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