Review of Knowing. Who needs originality?

Knowing is the apocalypse story that takes on a new premise of the apocalypse. But it doesn’t really add up. I noted at first that I said “Who needs originality?” While the premise of knowing when disasters happened and are going to happen is new, the ending is so bad you could end up laughing at it. And unfortunately, the best parts of the film were the disaster sequences. Those were pretty memorable and depending on who you are, that could be cool or emotionally scarring. There are also these black rocks that are scattered around the movie, but I never found out what they were for. The visual effects were pretty cool and one explosion at the end is probably one of the better I have seen in my life. The acting is exceptional on Nick Cage’s part with his usual dramatic shtick. But he doesn’t have a good script or other actors to back him up. This film really does prove that even the best actors can’t hold up a movie by themselves. There are even these albino people that are called “The Whisper People” who don’t actually talk, or whisper for that matter, just have two kids translate for them. One other thing I’d like to add is the fact that they used the same actress for two different roles. And that in itself is outright funny due to the fact that these two characters don’t have a lot to do with each other.

The Verdict:
Knowing has a lot of potential but in the end it comes out with two hours of ok footage with a terrible ending. If you have an urge to watch a Cage movie, I’d watch something else, because even though he does well, the rest is just big budget nonsense. All in all, Knowing is an ok movie that you don’t have to see. I give it 3 unnecessary rocks out of 5. 3/5.