If I could forsee how horrible Knowing, starring Nicholas Cage, was, i wouldn't have watched it. However, once I started watching it, I desperately wanted to see how the movie was going to play out, even though I knew it wasn't able to redeem itself.

The movie starts out in the year 1959. A creepy, obvioulsy disturbed girl is given the task of drawing a picture for a time capsule to be opened in 50 years. As all the other children gleefully get out their crayolas, the little disturbed girl, Lucinda, starts madly writing numers. As the time capsule is burried, she vanishes, and then is found blodied due to her continued writing of the numbers... in the walls...with her fingertips.

Flash forward to current time... Nicholas Cage is a possible athiest with a paster for a father. Ooooh I can just feel the tension. Is there a heaven or hell? Is life predetermined, or is it all randomness. Such deep topics, such a shitty movie.

So Nicholas Cage's not-deaf-talks-perfectly-but-wears-a-hearing-aid-anyway son goes to the same school as the opening scene's character, only now it's 2009 and they're unearthing the time capsule. BAM! He gets the letter from the crazy girl with all the numbers on it. He thinks it's stupi d. 

Next, Nick Cage gets his hands on it, and within 5 movie minutes he has figured out that this list of numbers are the dates and casualty numbers of every major disaster in the world for the last 50 years. Later in the movie he also realizes that the exact coordinates are given in the code as well.

So he decides to go to the sites of where these disasters are supposed to occure. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be looking for disaster... I'd be running away from it. First, an airplane falls from the sky and skids within about 10 feet of him and then bursts into flames. He runs around trying to help, but really only watches people burn up. The makers of this movie went out of their way to show the devestation of a plane crash, but it was a completely emotionless scene .

Next there's the awesome subway crash that happens so quickly you can't even tell what happened.

Finally he goes and hunts down the daughter of the crazy woman from the beginning only to find out the woman was REALLY crazy, but really accurate in her predictions.

There's also some creepy men in black following them around everywhere, but there's no clue as to who the hell they are.

Then there's the scientific discovery that a solar flare is going to indeed wipe out life on earth, so there is mass panic in the sreets.

Then come the aliens... the ones speaking to the children and putting numbers into their heads. They take the grand-daughter of the crazy 1959 woman along with the son of Nicholas Cage and they go off to another Earth like planet. Since Earth is doomed.

All of this is leading up to the fact that the end of the world is going to happen and they can't do anything to stop it

So NicK Cage believes in God and goes to be with his estranged familiy to die.

No tears shed. Pretty cut and dry.

There was so much going on in this movie, and so little time, that each part of it lacked in so many ways. I thought the idea and concept was pretty interesting. I'm a big fan of disaster movies, especially ones in which the Earth is wiped out. However, this was just so ridiculous, and I had to suspend my disbelief so often, I just couldn't stop thinking about how crappy it was. It wasn't quite as bad/funny as The Skulls was when I saw that in high school with some friends... but man, this movie I think takes the cake for one of the all time best Worst Nicholas Cage movies.

It wasn't so much 'knowing' something was going to happen and not being able to do anything about it.. it had more of a religious tone in that he know KNEW that there was life after death. Sigh. Come on Cage. Give us something good for once in a long while.