Knowing

Warning; MAJOR SPOILERS (I'm not joking if you intend on watching this film reading this will ruin it for you)

So this is Nicholas Cage's most recent movie, and for the first hour or so it seems particularly National Treasure esque with a bit more... horror thrown in. It's much less action adventure much more thriller with what seems like a creepy albino guy after the main character's son. And there's the crazy little girl/boy (lots of crazies) who like to write numbers down. For those of you who might have only seen the teaser trailer, or a billboard/bus poster thing, you probably won't understand the main premise of the film which is this; in 1959/8 (can't quite remember which) a class at an elementary school were asked by their teacher to draw what they thought the world would be like in fifty years to be placed in a time capsule. However, one girl in the class just wrote a HUGE list of what seems like random numbers on her piece of paper. When the piece of paper was snatched off of her by her teacher who was understandably disturbed by it, the girl runs to a closet somewhere in the school and starts scratching the remaining numbers into the door.

Fast forward 50 years and the time capsule is being taken out of the ground and each of the students are given a piece of paper with a picture on it. Coincidentally, the son of our protagonist (a teacher of course because he has to be clever) receives the piece of paper with numbers on, and Nicholas Cage starts to decipher it for some random reason. He notices a pattern and suddenly ta daaaaaa; the piece of paper tells him the date, the co-ordinates and the number of people who will die in every large accident that will/have happened in the past 50 years. Remotely predictable and yet entertaining action sequences ensue as is necessary and then it gets REALLY weird. Here's where the albino aliens come in.

Now all in all Knowing is a good film, it definitely entertained me until the dreaded alien thing happened. And although i HATED the ending, up until the last... twenty minutes it was a really good film. Like i mentioned at the beginning, a lot like you would expect considering the National Treasure films (both of which i really enjoyed) but i just have a problem with films that include aliens that weren't mentioned at the beginning. Independence day; aliens are alllll good. Not in this case. It's just... too weird. You expect some sort of riddle or adventure that is eventually solved... not for the "hero" to give up and die with the rest of the world.

So would i buy it on DVD? Yeah... if it was on special offer for £5. Would i advise someone to see it in the cinema? Not really.

Post the First

Alright so this is my second blog, and yes, the title is pretty much exactly the same as my first, except that obviously this is going to be about films and trailers instead of my personal thoughts. And seeing as I'm illegal and watch films online (not technically illegal seeing as I'm neither downloading nor sharing the files, just watching them so what I'm doing is actually just "frowned upon") i watch most films online before they've come out in the U.K and so have the ability to advise what films are worth going to see in the cinema, which are worth waiting for the DVD/watching online, and those that left me feeling as if I'd wasted a couple of hours of my life.

Obviously i don't assume to have an almighty opinion that everyone agrees with, but i like to think that i have an eclectic taste of film and my opinions can be changed (Juno being a prime example, but I'll get to that later) after making my mind up on a trailer so hopefully at least a couple of these reviews will help someone, and there will be those that agree, even if only to some aspect.

I'm not a fan of horror that much so if anyone does read this, please don't expect to find a review of a horror film that is being released, because chances are i won't have watched it and won't intend to either. But seeing as my sister is a huge fan, if she sees it, I'll add a couple of comments about what she thought (she generally has quite good judgement).

Alrighty then, so to quickly explain my Juno reference earlier on; when i watched the trailer for it i out rightly REFUSED to go and see the film because i was convinced that it would be crap, and yet when i finally saw it, it was actually really good. But Juno is most certainly one of those films that you have to persevere with, so if you haven't watched it, and happen to by chance, PLEASE just keep watching, it does get better.

And just as a passing note i will use references to old films so sorry if anyone doesn't understand them.