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Studio: Summit Entertainment
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 121 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.7
MPN: 66110365
UPC: 025192031885
EAN: 0025192031885
ASIN: B001GCUO02
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: July 7, 2009
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 Jesus and Mo are fake. October 12, 2009
Ramsey Tupper RIP (R(3,3,3) = 17, of course...)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
'Knowing' is the story of the Scientology offshoot started by Nicholas Cage which is also in my local strip club, a favorite area of the club for many visitors. The story is the first fim to feature Nicholas Cage appearing only as a special effect. The CGI used is state of the art and dumps on 'The Furious Case of Benji Button' released before this fim but using a previous version of the same software used to graft Brad Pitts face onto a body that was either a baby or or an old man either of which were not his. Here, this latest build of the software provides the viewer with a glimpse into the future of fim with digitally rendered actors being used instead of the actual source actor. This is why the fim is called Knowing.
The idea of using digital actors was first explored in Arnold Scwarzeneggers classic, 'The Runny Man', a fim about the effects of cholera on prisoners made to compete on a television programme like a futuristic in an 80's fashion Gladiators to the death. Arnold gets to the quarter of a final before he is fazed out by Killian the TV evil boss. He uses a digital overlay to make the viewers at home in the fim believe that Arnold was killed by a spike in the ring. He survived though and beats the boss after he said I'll be back.
The story in 'Knowing' is based on Nicholas Cage's splinter sub church of Scientology called Church of Cage Gaugeism. This church accepts most of the central tenets of the Scientologists except for the bit about metal Jesus. Cage believes that Peter Weller is the reincarnation of space Jesus after he disappeared from the scene after the success of Robocop 1 and 2. Peter became the recipient of visions and sounds which made him delirious with a complete way of thinking based upon scientology but an added a bit about him being the new version of metal Jesus 2.0.
This film transposes metal Jesus' life with unrelated scenes based not entirely on anything to do with this or anything. A girl fifty years before Nicholas Cage works out by contrived plot devices that the numbers she wrote not drew relate to dates of disasters and death rates from the past and up to the current future as in towards the end of the fim she writes numbers instead of drawing a picture that seemingly have no purpose, yet. The school locks her in the basement for being weird and she tries to scratch her way out. This is a direct relationship to metal Jesus' time in the wilderness.
A plane crashes near to Nicholas Cage on a road when he realises that the SatNav is telling him that he is where the plane is about to crash into the ground badly. He just about dives out of the way to be a survivor/looter as he goes around with fake fire stuck to his special effect ragdoll digital avatar. No actor would be insured to do this and what a waste of a plain. The SatNav is the burning bush.
As for the rest of the fim if you watch it with the sound down and overlay the 'Fantasia' soundtrack by Walt Disney, who is frozen, you can appreciate the digital Nicholas Cage without the heavily theological sernmonising of Weller and Cage's own brand of celebrity religious factionism. A great fim let down by militant on set crew disputes and poor quality dubbing and lighting and scripting and dolly grip. Five stars for the technology to allow Knickerless Cage to stay at home safe while real people get hurt.
 Creepy and poor October 5, 2009
B. Johnson (Las Vegas, NV USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
As someone who does not enjoy scary movies much, I would normally pass on watching this movie. However, I went to the movie with my boyfriend at the time (he persuaded me enough), and I sat with my eyes closed the majority of the time. If you do not like scary movies, poppy scenes, religion, or sci-fi, you probably won't like this movie. It was a very disturbing movie to say the least, but I will admit that it definitely makes you think. Had I been a fan of scary movies, I would say this is a decent movie, however the ending is just absolutely dredful. Both my boyfriend at the time and I walked out of the theater absolutely disgusted by the ending. Definitely not one of Nicholas Cage's best works.
 The Ending Asks "Why"? October 3, 2009
Dufus (Arizona, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Without going into all the details, the ending of this film begs the question of why the events of the film were even needed.
Well, beyond that, this film had some great action scenes that you would not expect. Good acting and a fairly good script. The ending will make you ask yourself, "Why?"
Very good film October 3, 2009
P. Mosquera Peãa
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Your send me, very well; and the film is very good, the vision from of the film'director is novel, I like this propouse, however, always lack something for tell. I enjoyit with my family that is very important to me.
Truly Idiotic October 2, 2009
J. D. Moore
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I won't give away the ending. But if I may take a tack adopted by a particularly salient review of this film:
1. If you have a brain, you will not like this movie.
2. If you've seen a good movie before, you will not like this movie.
3. If you expect a movie's plot -- even a stupid one -- to at least make sense, you will not like this movie.
4. If you think Nicholas Cage has made some really great movies, and expect this to be one, you will not like this movie.
5. If you love a good plot twist that you never saw coming, you will not like this movie.
6. If you love a movie that is gripping, tight, and suspenseful for a good 100 minutes, and then comes to ground on a stupid, ill-conceived, cowardly climax that could have been SO much better, you MIGHT like this movie.
Look -- it's not about Nick Cage or the type of movie this is. It's not about "God" or "science fiction." It's about the kind of movie that "Knowing" WANTS to be, but is not. You see the "twist" coming from a mile away (really, there are only two options). And you hope against hope that they go "the right way" with it, because that would be new, daring, controversial, and exciting. But when they DON'T -- and then they try to sell the "twist" that they opted for using completely idiotic contrivances that gloss over or utterly discard, oh, 40 percent of the film's "what the heck is going on here" moments -- you are left slack jawed, asking aloud, "Really? Really? REALLY?"
That's generally not something a movie should make you ask.
Bottom line: I want those 2 hours back. Avoid.
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