Knowing Movie Blurb by Shale March 20, 2009 This movie was roundly trashed by three-fourths of critics, including the local one for the Miami Herald. However, I don't let such nay-sayers keep me from seeing what looked to be a good sci-fi, apocalyptic flick with exciting special effects. This is my kind of escapism and turns out it was an interesting story. From the trailers you learn that there is a time-capsule placed at a new elementary school in 1959 where the kids are asked to put their visions of the future. When it is opened in 2009 MIT astrophysics professor John Koestler's (Nicolas Cage) son, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury) picks a paper just filled with random numbers, written by Lucinda (Lara Robinson) a strange girl 50 years ago. When John sees 0911012996 and ties it with the September 11 attack and the number of dead he searches and finds dates for other famous disasters of the past 50 years and the number that died. He also discovers on the list a few tragedies yet to happen. John Koestler Deciphering the Numbers When he finds himself inadvertently at the same location where a horrific plane crash takes place he starts delving into the possibility of a providential connection to him and his son. Plane Crash He finds Lucinda's daughter, Diana (Rose Byrne) and granddaughter Abby (again Lara Robinson) feeling there is a connection. After she freaks out about it, Diana finally comes around to delving into the mysteries surrounding her crazy mother who heard voices. John and Diana Searching the Past for Clues to the Future By now he discovers that the leftover numbers on the sheet are geographic coordinates and knows of an event to take place at a certain date at an intersection in the city. This is the very violent subway wreck as seen in the trailers. Besides the mysterious numbers there are the strange "Whispering Strangers" that the two kids can hear and who apparently talked to Lucinda when she was a kid. Confronting the Whispering Strangers While perusing the reviews on Rottentomatoes, many of them made reference to M. Night Shyamalan, X-Files and Close Encounters. I suppose it was a busy movie, but mostly coherent in its progression. The movie had some flaws in acting and dialogue, and the same story could have been told in less time. But the story was interesting, delving into the possibilities of whether there is any plan to the universe, whether it just happened randomly and are there others with us here. And, I really liked the couple hours spent suspending disbelief.
Yeah, I saw this on Saturday. I enjoyed it, but I had higher expectations on a movie with this type of storyline and Nicholas Cage. I thought the outcome is partially random, from the building up of storyline for the whispering people. Very appealing movie though. Side note, I really liked the action scenes of when the plane crashes, it doesn't just show the blow up, but it shows all the pieces crashing on cars, people on fire, etc. The ending part too.
I saw it on Friday and I'd give it 2 ½ stars out of 4. The special effects were good but the storyline wasn’t as plausible as I would hope. It did have some special added interest because I grew up 10 miles north of winchester, massachusetts - and it was cool watching Boston destroyed :cheers2: Hotwater
i thought cage's acting SUCKED and i didnt care for the story line,i thought it was too predictable. i would give it 2 1/2 stars outta 5. mediocre at best..
word the minute I saw the guys in the black cloaks I knew they were ********************spoilers***************** aliens. the movie started going to shit half way through and it seems like whenever that happens, the predictable ending of aliens is thrown in
