Knowing (2009)

	Directed by: Alex Proyas	COUNTRY USA/UK GENRE Science Fiction/Mystery/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Knowing RUNNING TIME 121 minutes
	Produced by: Todd Black Jason Blumenthal Alex Proyas Steve Tisch
	Written by: Ryne Douglas Pearson Juliet Snowden Stiles White

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
John Koestler	Nicolas Cage	½
Caleb Koestler	Chandler Canterbury	½
Diana Whelan	Rose Byrne	½
Abby / Lucinda Whelan	Lara Robinson	½
The Stranger	D. G. Maloney	½
Grace Koestler	Nadia Townsend
Reverend Koestler	Alan Hopgood
Phil Beckman	Ben Mendelsohn

Review

In Knowing, Nicolas Cage starts out in a scientific, probing environment and ends up as the witness to a shamelessly glorified biblical parable set against the latest in pseudo-scientific armageddons. In theme, the film is a combination of timeless and transitory, dealing with existential questions while milking one of our time's greatest collective fears: global warming and climate change. The existentialistic discussions are unsatisfactory, however; every proposition and solution is borrowed cheaply from the Bible. If you're trying to think outside of the box, Knowing will soon pull you back into it. Both the film's narrative and inherent ominousness feel old-school and inane. In the end, these drawbacks wipe out the memories of the film's interesting and chilling first half in which a time capsule and a clever puzzle form an attractive basis.

Copyright © 16.09.2009 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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