Knowing (2009)
Country: US/GB/AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 121m
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
Synopsis:
An astrophysicist who puts his wife's accidental death down to the randomness of life's knocks stumbles across a list of numbers left by a schoolgirl fifty years previously. As apparent coincidence grows into systematic certainty he finds they are dates and locations determining fatal disasters around the world since that time and a short distance into the future, culminating in the worst imaginable.
Review:
A teasing five-minute lecture on randomness and determinism is as far as the movie gets to providing food for the brain; the rest is a cross between Close Encounters and Seven, with set pieces of wholesale destruction and mayhem that seem hellbent on outdoing the authentic footage of 9/11. Cage stumbles about looking pained, but nothing quite matches for incredulousness the ease with which, in the midst of mass panic and minutes before the end of the world, he drives into Manhattan, past reckless crowds, to pull up outside his father's church just in time to die with his family.
Country: US/GB/AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 121m
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
Synopsis:
An astrophysicist who puts his wife's accidental death down to the randomness of life's knocks stumbles across a list of numbers left by a schoolgirl fifty years previously. As apparent coincidence grows into systematic certainty he finds they are dates and locations determining fatal disasters around the world since that time and a short distance into the future, culminating in the worst imaginable.
Review:
A teasing five-minute lecture on randomness and determinism is as far as the movie gets to providing food for the brain; the rest is a cross between Close Encounters and Seven, with set pieces of wholesale destruction and mayhem that seem hellbent on outdoing the authentic footage of 9/11. Cage stumbles about looking pained, but nothing quite matches for incredulousness the ease with which, in the midst of mass panic and minutes before the end of the world, he drives into Manhattan, past reckless crowds, to pull up outside his father's church just in time to die with his family.
Country: US/GB/AUS
Technical: col/2.35:1 121m
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
Synopsis:
An astrophysicist who puts his wife's accidental death down to the randomness of life's knocks stumbles across a list of numbers left by a schoolgirl fifty years previously. As apparent coincidence grows into systematic certainty he finds they are dates and locations determining fatal disasters around the world since that time and a short distance into the future, culminating in the worst imaginable.
Review:
A teasing five-minute lecture on randomness and determinism is as far as the movie gets to providing food for the brain; the rest is a cross between Close Encounters and Seven, with set pieces of wholesale destruction and mayhem that seem hellbent on outdoing the authentic footage of 9/11. Cage stumbles about looking pained, but nothing quite matches for incredulousness the ease with which, in the midst of mass panic and minutes before the end of the world, he drives into Manhattan, past reckless crowds, to pull up outside his father's church just in time to die with his family.