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.