Knowing

A couple of nights ago I watched the new Nicolas Cage movie Knowing on Blu-Ray. I had no idea what the movie was about, all I knew that it had a little girl in it who was supposed to draw a picture but because she was psychic, she wrote down a load of numbers which actually turned out to be the dates of every disaster from then until now & a few more which were going to happen in the very near future. That's all I knew.

So I sat down in the living room & watched it with my mum & my sister. Needless to say, I was totally blown away by it. The drama, the acting, the special FX, the story line & everything about it was just amazing. Could this be my new favorite recent film??? I'm gonna have to watch The Dark Knight again before I decide. I know everyone says they loved Heath Ledgers performance just because he died, but I seriously did love his performance in the movie. The way he brought The Joker to life in a 21st Century style of lunacy is beyond amazing, & it makes me very depressed that The Joker was the last character he would ever play...

So anyway back to Knowing. One word= EPIC. I don't know if it was just the 50 inch HD TV & Blu-Ray disk, but the special effects were incredible!! The shots of the city being engulfed with flames when the sun burned the Earth were so realistic that if you saw them on the news you would crap your pants.

The acting was also very good IMO. I know that Nicolas Cage is pretty much the same in every movie he does, but is that really such a bad thing?? I like Nicolas Cage so I'm going to like him in anything he does. If you like the actor/actress then it really doesn't matter if they are the same in everything they do.

The part when you find out that the mysterious people who have been following Cage & the others around are actually aliens was quite a surprise. It didn't seem like the kind of film that would in include aliens in it's plot, so that was another surprise right there... IMO it was a nice surprise too. I mean, why would normal human beings have greyish coloured skin??? Lol

It had a very sad ending. There were two endings I was expecting. Number 1 being that Nicolas Cage, his son, the woman & her daughter would be rescued & taken to the new planet to live together & Cages dead wife would be brought back to life, & number 2 being the same, only the girls mother who died in a car crash would be brought back to life & Cage would end up being with her. But again, the actual ending was a surprise. Cage died along with the entire planet except for a few select people (who I'm assuming were other children) who were taken to a new planet. It was very sad, but very powerful at the same time. If a film has the power to make you cry, it just means it's a good movie. Needless to say, the boy & the girl running together towards the tree on the new planet symbolises Adam & Eve. At least that's the message I got from it.

So yeah, I thought this movie was amazing. 10/10. You know that feeling you get when you see a great film & you get a lump in your throat & you feel tight-chested? That's how Knowing made me feel. Everyone I've spoken to about the film were like "Meh..." about it, but I loved every minute of it. Now I need to watch The Dark Knight again to determine which is my favorite. Also, I've got the Tom Hanks film Philadelphia coming in the post soon, so I'm gonna have to watch that too. However, with that being a 1994 film, I think that will be a different category to The Dark Knight & Knowing...

Anyway that's about it. Thanks for reading & don't forget to watch Knowing ASAP. You won't regret it...


-- Thats all folks!!