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Knowing [Blu-ray]

Knowing [Blu-ray]Director: Alex Proyas
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 340 reviews

Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 121 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.6

MPN: SUMBR66110366
UPC: 025192031892
EAN: 0025192031892

Theatrical Release Date: March 20, 2009
Release Date: July 7, 2009
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Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 7-JUL-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray

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Nicolas Cage stars in this largely unsatisfying science-fiction tale that begins as a taut and spooky story concerning psychic legacies and ends up falling back on Steven Spielberg's old, cosmic playbook for default explanations about weird phenomena. Cage stars as astrophysicist and widower John Koestler, whose young son attends a school where a 50-year-old time capsule is dug up and opened. Koestler's son, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), is given an envelope from the capsule containing a sheet of paper inscribed with seemingly-random numbers. Koestler interprets groupings of the numbers as prophesies (made in 1959) of disasters leading up to a globally catastrophic event late in 2009. Moreover, some of the later tragedies involve him or members of his family, suggesting the paper was meant to fall into his and Caleb's hands. That’s not the only freaky thing drawing father and son in a direction they really don't want to go. Among other things, a quartet of mute strangers keeps showing up with a powerful interest in Caleb's whereabouts, and the daughter and granddaughter of the little girl who originally scribbled those numbers in 1959 are under the shadow of a separate prediction of doom. Everything goes swimmingly until it's time for director Alex Proyas (The Crow) to begin tying up all the strings, and cliches start falling like rain. On the plus side, Knowing includes a couple of breathtaking scenes of calamity, the most horrifying (and realistic) of which is a jet crash the likes of which has never been committed to film. --Tom Keogh

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1 out of 5 stars Attention Obama Voters   August 28, 2010
William C. Beatty MD (Cincinnati, OH United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Five Stars for Obama Voters! The key plot point is when the devoted father (Cage, completely believable as an MIT astrophysicist- the role he was born to play)) turns his beloved son over to space aliens to be taken to another pre-human world with a another preadolescent (this one female) to begin to to populate it. This occurs despite the fact that the space aliens do not bother to speak a word to anybody and throughout the first part of the movie scare the wits out of all parties by their creepy behavior including "whispering" to various humans who are then misunderstood by the unknowing medical profession as having hallucinations and institutionalized. Cage's Father accepts the premise that he cannot go to the new home because he is not one of the "Chosen." The apocalypse threatening the earth is...wait for it... THE LOSS OF THE OZONE LAYER! This causes the earth's crust to explode because of the Overheating which takes place in a matter of minutes. The son is pretty relaxed about leaving his father to get into an alien spacecraft with his tormentors from earlier in the movie. Obama voters will resonate with the decision of the Chosen youth to embrace the promise of new goodies on another world.


2 out of 5 stars Duh   August 11, 2010
G. YEO (Singapore)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Movies can be entertainment. Movies can be thought-provoking. KNOWING tries to do both, but accomplishes neither. I was expecting a thriller, but when I googled the movie halfway while watching this, I came across the words "science-fiction thriller" which made me think: bad news.

Bad news because the movie is intrinsically a human story, but the introduction of sci-fi aka unexplained Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind elements confuse the conflict. KNOWING is about Nicholas Cage stumbling across the greatest secret the world has ever known - a Nostradamus like prophecy which subsequently turns out to be a neither fish nor fowl. It's hard to rate for that. The acting works on Cage's part, as does the premise, but the execution at the end is so dissatisfying that you're better off reading the Bible than watching this.

Unfortunately, the nice special effects only make this film appear indulgent than meaningful. Director Proyas simply isn't deep enough to make a real statement, and he shouldn't try. This reminded me of an M. Night Shyamalan film...cryptic at the beginning and no wiser at the end. Another similarly epic / introspective belly button film was The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky.

So give this a miss...and watch a rerun of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone instead for offbeat cryptic storylines that succeed. Or go watch Armageddon...(or any end of the world films) which will essentially give you the same buzz with an ending. The filmmakers should be applauded for trying to make a different kind of film, but like Danny Boyle's Sunshine - KNOWING just doesn't work.


1 out of 5 stars Attempted remake of "Taken"   July 2, 2010
Michael A. Scheurich (California)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

Although I have the greatest respect for Nicolas Cage and the philosophical concepts in this movie stir the imagination the attempt of the producers to cash in on the blockbuster movie "Taken" made this movie more of a comedy. Cage plays the part of an atheist MIT physics professor who believes the events of the universe are simply random accidents. But as all anti-atheist movies goes he discovers god at the end of the movie. This film tries to duplicate the emotional scenes in 'Taken' where the parents of the child being taken by god like aliens (who are wiping all life from the planet to start over with new life on another planet which is enviromentally pure.) Cage grapples with the aliens begging them not to take his son who also begs to stay with his dad (sound familiar?) After his son is taken the professor is found next morning still upset and lying in the spot where his son was taken (another hammed up scene from Taken). He then meets with his father and girlfriend where they all rejoice to the realization they will meet again in heaven. This type of movie where an atheist discovers god seems to be a favorite ploy used by religions in their attempts to convince the public that god exists.


3 out of 5 stars Cross a really expensive episode of "Numb3rs" with a fist fight in a world religions and myths bookstore, and you have Knowing   June 25, 2010
ninjasuperstar (Iowa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Whenever Roger Ebert makes an extraordinary claim ("Knowing is among the best science-fiction films I've seen") about something so mediocre and hackneyed as this film, I question the great Answer Man's remaining powers. I generally agree with him, but Ebert is dead wrong about this entertaining but ludicrous film.

The movie is a mash of science fiction and religious ideas about the end of the earth: a rather transparent numerology, the foresight of seers, the receptiveness of chosen ones, an advanced alien race that communicates telepathically, Armageddon, and a bit of the unexplained (those stupid pebbles). How many times and in how many ways have these plagiarized ideas and character types been arranged?

Further, the director, Alex Proyas, cannibalizes his own material--the alien race from Dark City--which is an excellent sci-fi noir. Proyas was also successful with The Crow, the first movie to actually look like a graphic novel in motion, as opposed to a film. What separates Proyas' successes from Knowing is that Knowing doesn't have an interesting style and it doesn't stick to one set of myths (hence the mashing). Another failure is that Knowing attempts to make science fiction more like science, which isn't the case at all. And is the audience to believe that an MIT professor has fifth-grade dialogues about the composition of the sun with his students? Really?

As much as I think the film is dumb, it is entertaining, and that accounts for something. Nicolas Cage (who seems to be channeling his character Ben Sanderson from Leaving Las Vegas) is intense and engaging as professor John Koestler. Rose Byrne also gives an excellent performance as Diana Wayland. To say much more would reveal too much of the film.

Rent this if you like disaster sci-fi and want to be entertained, but don't expect to learn anything you don't already know.


2 out of 5 stars Pop Ezekiel   June 16, 2010
Thunderhead22 (Decatur, GA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is like an episode of the X Files (which in the end also had some quasi-religious elements). I give it 2 stars for trying. I didn't totally hate it, but it certainly did contain lots of been-there-done-that moments. I know they were alluding to Ezekiel's UFO-esque "wheel" at the end, but I'm a bit tired of the "glorious awe" effect. I agree with many of the previous posters who pointed out that the whole numbers thing, while interesting as a plot device, was totally pointless. That information didn't empower anybody to do anything. It wasn't even needed to get the kids to the location at the end (the aliens took care of that). A major plot thread that goes nowhere is a bad sign. BTW, it's possible to view this in a totally non-religious context. Yes, Cage sort of get's the spirit and reluctantly reconciles with his dad, but even though an afterlife is alluded to in those emotional moments, there is never a shred of evidence thrust upon the viewer (thankfully, as far as I'm concerned).

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