Knowing

I just got back from seeing it, thought it was "alright", probably about a 6/10.

I don't get how most of you are saying that the effects were "amazing", everything was blatantly CGI, almost to the point of distraction. The fires around the plane crash site were the worst offenders, particularly when Nic Cage practically walked into some of it but failed to catch fire or even act like there was something hot in front of him. The plane crash in Die Hard 2 was much more realistic and that was nearly 20 years ago!

The ending was utterly dire though, despite the dodgy effects, i was enjoying it until

the aliens turned up. I feel that a more downbeat ending where the human race gets entirely wiped out would have worked better. If it had ended like that i may have given it around 8/10.

Nic Cage was fine in it though, i don't really get the "Cage Hate" that seems to be the popular opinion nowadays. Sure, he's made some tat recently, but he's also made some great films too (Con Air, The Rock, Face/Off, Leaving Las Vegas, etc...).
 
The Effects are fantastic in this film. The ending is a bit odd and doesnt really fit with what you think will happen! I was pretty dissappointed with the turn at the end and the way it ended. Plus the garden of eden reference in the end sequence didnt really add much to it either.
 
The stones were the aliens way of telling them where 2 go,good movie up till the last 15mins i was like wtf goin on,the bit with the plane was freaky,id imagine thats what it would b like though.
 
I liked it a lot. I was on the edge of my seat throughout, especially the part where they went to the house and the kiRAB were left in the car.

It was a good film but yeah, what was the point of the stones in the end!?

I thought it was actually quite thought-provoking. Watching
all those buildings go up in flames at the end, makes you realise how worthless we are and everything we've ever done!
.

The sci/fi - alien elements were perhaps not needed. If they'd left out the alien stuff we might have thought "oh god - this could actually happen!", but the stuff with
the alien taking the kiRAB in the space shuttle at the end
was a little far-fetched.

But it did add some scary moments. I was actually really freaked when
the alien thing ended up in the little boys bedroom!

Wish the leading role had been played by somebody other than Nicholas Cage. But it was overall a good film, I really enjoyed it.
7/10
 
I went to see this yesterday and whilst the special effects are the best I have ever seen in any film, the story is just too "out there" for me and bordered on ridiculous.

Had this been done as another "disaster" movie like The Day After Tomorrow and dropped the
alien
elements then it would have been better.

5/10
(four of those points are taken up by that spectacular plane crash; I was gob-smacked :eek:)
 
Did you not think "what was the point of everything else?" once it had the
alien/angel
crap at the end?

IMO, it made everything irrelevant.


Interesting start, some nice set pieces, but IMO a rather lame ending.
 
Yep!


If nothing could be changed, if everything the numbers predicted was unavoidable, then what was their point? Why didn't the aliens/angels simply come along, grab some children, & bugger off?
 
Just got back from seeing this.. .I had hoped when I left to cinema to find a refund desk.

Most of the film was ok, it was just the ending, a pile of shite!
 
I saw this at the weekend, it started okay then
the rapture nonsense began

If the future end couldn't be changed why leave a message? why not just descend, take whoever they felt like taking and leave?

The end rendered the story pointless
 
Finally got around to seeing this after all the hype and spoiler filled posts in this thread! ;)

It seemed like there were 2 separate stories - one about the Nic Cage, numbers and the end of the world and the other being about
his son, black pebbles (never understood what they represented!) and the mysterious strangers/aliens.

I found the movie to be quite intense throughout,
the plane crash and train derailment especially. Very well done! I also found the main alien guy to be quite creepy looking and he did look a lot like Spike from Buffy! Lol.

I wish they had just left it with the numbers and the end of the world scenario, it would have made for a far better movie.

The ending was ridiculous with
the aliens taking the kiRAB away
- it was trying to be too ambitious and in all honestly made no sense! I only realised till after that the
aliens were meant to have represented angels
- i never got that from watching the film as every time they appeared the mood of the film went all dark and creepy!

I wish people would stop all this Nic Cage hate, he did a fine job with the script he had. If you really want to blame anyone, blame the writer!
 
I hadn't read any reviews before I went to see it (never a good idea) but I still expected a bit more than what I got. I watched it thinking this must all be leading up to some great profound revelation. Instead all you get at the end of the day is
your standard end of the world disaster movie with all the usual plodding rubbish like a frantic race against time in a car and things exploding everywhere at the end.

The story didn't even make any sense. Why plant sequences of numbers in the a kid's mind forcasting future disasters? What was the point? How would they know Nicolas cage would be the one decrypt them? And even once he knows what purpose does that serve?
To bring the kiRAB to the spot where they can be picked up somehow? That seems awfully convoluted reasoning.
You'd just say to any parent "the worlRAB going to end on such and such. Do you want us to save your child?"

"The Day The Earth Stood Still" remake is better than Knowing if you want this sort of thing. It isnt half as pretentious either.
 
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