Knowing (DVD)

Knowing (2009) I have been kind of waiting for this film to be out on Virgin Media; I like Nicholas Cage, and I like a good thriller, the director, Alex Proyas was responsible for 'I Robot' (a good film) and 'The Crow' (a brilliant film) so, all the signs were good for this, nearly two hour long offering. ~~The Plot~~ It is essentially a simple plot, though like most good thrillers it has some interesting 'diversions' along the way. 50 years ago in a local school, the pupils are invited to put drawings of what they think might be around in the future (50 years hence) into a time capsule to be buried in the school grounds. ...  Read the complete review

For someone who doesn't like Nicolas Cage I seem to have been to the cinema to see all of his latest films over the last twelve months. Probably because when one of his films is showing at the cinema every billboard and tram stop is adorned with his wide eyes, badly drawn mug, and hair do and there is no escape. Having seen some of the trailers for Knowing, I had a pretty good idea what the film was going to be about. For the first 30 minutes my assumptions were correct but then I was a little surprised at what followed next. Some threads of the film wandered off in directions that left me totally bemused. My advice is try not to see any trailers and you will ...  Read the complete review

A review of just the film, Knowing was produced in 2009 and the region 2 DVD is due to be released on August 3rd. In 1959, a group of junior school students prepares to seal pictures inside a time capsule, destined to be opened 50 years later. One of the children, a strange girl named Lucinda, draws an apparently random but enormous string of numbers and despite some disapproval from her teacher, the drawing is included along with the others. In 2009, Caleb Koestler (now a student at the same school) is given Lucinda's letter to open and stirs the curiosity of his father, John, who finds a dreadful significance in the chain of numbers - but will he uncover the ...  Read the complete review

My Wife bought this after wanting to see it at the cinema, but never getting around to it. I watched it with her, thinking that it would be an action film starring Nicholas Cage trying to save the world. In some ways I was right but in some I was very wrong. The film begins with children in a school being told to prepare a letter for a time capsule that will be planted in their grounds, to be opened in 50 years time by the pupils of the time. Lots of people draw spaceships, although one strange little girl rights a series of numbers on her letter. Then after the Time Capsule is planted, she dissapears! Fast Forward 50 years to the present day. ...  Read the complete review

- Credits - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011/fullcredits - Story - Fifty years after it was planted, a time capsule is opened at the school of John Koestlers son, Caleb. Every pupil is given an envelope to open containing something the classmates wrote or drew fifty years prior. Caleb opens his to find a list of seemingly meaningless numbers which John ends up with but it soon becomes clear that the girl who originally wrote this knew things no-one else didn't, as it appears that the numbers are clues to disasters that are going to take place in the future, so John sets out to try and identify where these disasters will take place and ...  Read the complete review