Starring: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne
Directed by: Alex Proyas
Just got back from the Wilton Mall on this very nice Spring afternoon, yes, it finally feels like Spring for once. You can actually go outside without a coat on finally. Before I went and saw a movie, I did pick up the new, “Legends of Wrestlemania” video game for the PS3. I just picked up the game today, so I will start playing it tonight to see how the game is. The game has been getting great reviews and positive feedback, so I decided to get it for myself.
Anyway, I saw the new Nicolas Cage movie, “Knowing” today and here is my review.
Plot/Synopsis: 50 Years ago in Lexington, Mass in 1959, an elementary teacher introduces a science project called the Time Capsule. The students must draw pictures of the future so it can be locked into the Time Capsule. Later, the Time Capsule gets buried in front of the school. One of the students, which is a young girl named Lucinda Embry who is mentally disturbed writes on a piece of paper with all of these mysterious numbers, the paper with the mysterious numbers gets locked into the Time Capsule with all the other student drawings.
50 Years later, Nicolas Cage plays a character named John Koestler who is an astrophysicist teacher at a college. The Time Capsule is pulled out of the ground in front of the school, and there is a new generation of elementary students. The drawn photos of the future were handed out to children, and of course, John Koestler’s son, Caleb, gets hold of the envelope where it had Lucinda Embry’s mysterious numbers coding.
At first, John didn’t approve Caleb grabbing hold of Lucinda’s papers with those mysterious numbers. Of course, John couldn’t resist those numbers and he decided to investigate them to see what they are all about himself. John spends all day and all night, working on those numbers. What has he discovered? All those numbers on Lucinda’s papers are actually, “dates”.
He first recognized one date which was Sept. 11th 2001, which of course, marks the Sept. 11th World Trade Center terrorist attacks. He begins to investigate the rest of the dates on Lucinda’s paper. He just discovered that all the dates marked are dates that warn you about tragic events that happen over the years all over the world. On the paper, John has circled all the dates of the tragic events that already happened in the past, but didn’t circled the ones that didn’t happen yet in the future ahead.
John already knows what happens in future tragic events, like a plane crashes by as he is driving, there is a major NYC subway station accident, things like that. John tries to help save people’s lives before those tragic events even happen.
That’s all I’ll go with the plot. My thoughts on the film? I was really really really surprised by it. The film was very good. In fact, I thought it was amazing and pretty impressive. It is definitely more of a science fiction film. The story was well told and the script was well written. The acting was great. I also loved how Nicolas Cage is the only big name star in the film, and the rest of the cast are unknown actors.
Great special effects, the sound is just mind blowing. Imagine what this movie will sound like on your 5.1 Surround Sound speakers when this film comes out on DVD/Blu Ray. I thought Nicolas Cage did a great job in this film. The film kept you at the edge of your seat, it’s a PG-13 science fiction film, but it had some incredible action sequences, especially the NYC Subway station scene, wait until you see that.
I’d definitely reccomend you to see this one before it stops playing. Exciting movie. I had fun watching it all the way through and didn’t “yawn” one bit.
Score for “Knowing” = **** (4 stars as in excellent)
Kev
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