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		List Price: $34.99		Label: Summit Entertainment Salesrank: 3457 Released: July 7, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
A college professor (Nicolas Cage) opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son s elementary school. In it are some chilling accurate predictions of disasters... when, where, and how many will die. Most of these events must uncover the details of the next disasters in hopes of preventing them. If he fails, who knows how many will die?

Description of Knowing [Blu-ray]:
Nicolas Cage stars in this largely unsatisfying science-fiction tale that begins as a taut and spooky story concerning psychic legacies and ends up falling back on Steven Spielberg's old, cosmic playbook for default explanations about weird phenomena. Cage stars as astrophysicist and widower John Koestler, whose young son attends a school where a 50-year-old time capsule is dug up and opened. Koestler's son, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), is given an envelope from the capsule containing a sheet of paper inscribed with seemingly-random numbers. Koestler interprets groupings of the numbers as prophesies (made in 1959) of disasters leading up to a globally catastrophic event late in 2009. Moreover, some of the later tragedies involve him or members of his family, suggesting the paper was meant to fall into his and Caleb's hands. That’s not the only freaky thing drawing father and son in a direction they really don't want to go. Among other things, a quartet of mute strangers keeps showing up with a powerful interest in Caleb's whereabouts, and the daughter and granddaughter of the little girl who originally scribbled those numbers in 1959 are under the shadow of a separate prediction of doom. Everything goes swimmingly until it's time for director Alex Proyas (The Crow) to begin tying up all the strings, and cliches start falling like rain. On the plus side, Knowing includes a couple of breathtaking scenes of calamity, the most horrifying (and realistic) of which is a jet crash the likes of which has never been committed to film. --Tom Keogh

Knowing [Blu-ray] Reviews:
In the end a whole lot of nothing
2009-12-24 - This to me was a film that aspired to be many things yet ultimately left me feeling indifferent. I liked some of the concepts the director was playing with yet it all ends up falling apart into a sort of occult mish-mash, which is poor form given that the film is an attempt at science-fiction. If you're into astrology or a big Nick Cage fan (I've never met one personally) then there's probably enough going on here that you'll enjoy the ride but if you're after a sci-fi fix I wouldn't bother.

BEST MOVIE-LOVED IT!!!
2009-12-23 - I watched this and then watched it again! I loved it! It was a good movie despite all the negative comments. This was good!!! My daughter and I loved it!!! I can't wait to add this to my collection!

A good movie if you can suspend your belief in reality
2009-12-23 - This movie is interesting. The beginning is interesting and a great film with interesting relationships. The father/son relationship with the father being an alcoholic who tries to be a good father is well worth the watch. The end of the movie gets a tad convaluded and turns crazy, I also question why the movie had to turn biblical. I just don't really understand the purpose. It seems that for some reason these disaster movies always have to turn to religion to explain - this movie wants to use science, however, in doesn't in the end.

I think you can enjoy this movie and the end of it if you can realize that it is pure fiction. Not science fiction. Just fiction.

KNOWING IS OK
2009-12-21 - FIRST I FOUND IT MORE SCI FI THAN SPIRITUAL. HOW? WELL FIRST OFF SINCE WHEN IS GOD AN ALIEN BEING WHO COMES IN SPACE SHIPS AND TALKS TO KIDS IN WHISPERS?

I SAW AT THE END HOW SOMEONE COULD GO SCREAMING OMG ITS THE GARDEN OF EDEN WITH KIDDIES.

BASICALLY THE EARTH IS GONNA GO BOOM.

AND ALIEN RACE THAT IS KINDER AND GENTLER THAN WE ARE DECIDES TO GIVE US A SECOND CHANCE.

UM WHERE DOES GOD COME UP? HE DOESN'T..... IT'S ET, MAYBE THE VULCANS WHO KNOWS WHAT RACE BUT IT ISN'T GOD IN ANYWAY.

I WOULD HOPE IF WE EVER GET ADVANCED ENOUGH IN TECH WE WOULD FIND OTHER WORLDS THAT ARE POPULATED AND GO HOLY SMOKES THAT ONES IS GONNA GO BOOM AND RUN OVER AND SAVE SOME OF THEM... BUT HUMANS ARE NOT KNOWN TO BE NICE.

I LOVED THE MOVIE AND IM NOT A FAN OF CAGE! I AM COMING AROUND NOW THAT HE DID THE MOLE ON G FORCE .

BRING ON THE HATE MAIL I KNOW ITS COMING BUT IF YOU ARE SO INSECURE YOU HAVE TO FIND GOD IN EVERYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH ALIENS GET OVER IT

Another end of days saga.
2009-12-20 - I actually have been told that some people believe the world is going to end in 2012. I've heard this again and again from people who seem to be bright.

"Knowing" is yet another film about the end of days. A theme which has taken over the thoughts of many people, most in the United States, for several years.

I am always troubled by such films as "Knowing" for film technology has become so clever that the lines between truth and fiction blur more and more with every new story that comes along.

This film is fiction as is "2012" and the many other flicks out there that are making money by making films about current fears and obsessions of many, many people. Fears and obsessions which seem to grow whenever there is a real or perceived as real crisis such as our economy bottoming out and the repercussions from that event.

Where I take exception is with people who will see this film as yet another reaffirmation of their fundamentalism and their fatalism. And people who will see this film and forget they are simply watching some screenwriters creation.

It is time to talk common sense. It is time to debunk the beliefs of anyone who believes this world will end. And it is time to look at these films as ONLY entertainment that is scarey but nothing else. The same way I as a young person looked at "The Thing", the 1951 sci-fi film, which was scarey and therefore fun to watch but did not leave me with the real fear that our world was about to be invaded by malignant bloodsucking carrots.

Some years ago, several end of days films were made. Among a group of people they were quite popular. As if death and destruction on a worldwide scale could ever be called popular. The technology was poor as was the acting. The intent of these films was to spread the word of evangelical faith and the belief that "Revelations" is nothing less than a road map of what will actually happen to all of us....someday.

"Knowing" walks in those same shoes. It takes that book in the Bible and adds a purportedly scientific and therefore credible interpretation to the story.

Frankly this film is nothing less than a clever promotion of the end of days beliefs so many many evangelicals embrace and have been for many years now promoting like crazy. A slick and well done version of how the end will come that so called non believers could believe. Right down to the end with the innocents and the "tree of knowledge". A second chance for Adam and Eve to do "the right thing this time".....

I can't imagine what is more offensive. The lame attempt to once again preach to the masses, meaning us, about a ludicrous idea that some will live and most will die in a fiery end. An end run around common sense to actually get otherwise intelligent people talking about something evangelicals believe as gospel and promote as our collective future. And our collective end.

Nicholas Cage is a great actor. A great action actor. But when he makes these types of films I'm not surprised he is bankrupt. The same intelligence that should have made him police his accountants more was also lacking when he signed on to this propaganda.

End of days films seem to be very popular and if one stops for a moment and thinks about the religious belief behind these films, uses common sense in other words, one sees how obscene such beliefs are. I am deeply troubled as a admittedly religious woman by anyone who anticipates happily such a dreadful end to this incredible world we all share when it also means that life, all life as we know it, ends. Life which has committed no evil. No wrong. No sin.

One must always stop and remember how the Christian bible came about and the times in which it was created. Terrible times of religious persecution and paganism reaffirming itself. When I look at "Revelations" I do not see prophecy but propaganda. How better to garner converts to your flock and keep them there than with a dreadful saga of the end of days in which only the converts will be saved. As for the book of Revelations itself, one does not need medical training to see the ravings of a someone truly ill with insantiy. Not saintliness nor foresight but true madness.

Whenever a film comes about in these very troubled times that walks lock step with evangelical end of days obsessions it is important to remember that regardless of what we think we have done which gives us shame or sadness, we do not get a reset button. It is up to each of us to instead do what we can in the future to live life in a better and kinder way. The world is not going to end at all. Those who think themselves saved, a group set aside to survive the imagined, and sadly hoped for, holocaust of holocausts, will not saved.

End of days obsessions have bubbled to the surface of christian faith throughout the last 2000 years. In this country many times have we believed the end was coming. It never did.

And it never will. "Knowing" is yet another spin on this obscene idea cloaked in scientific tech speak and real sci-fi special effects. But it is no different from the hackneyed films about this belief nor from any other end of time flick. What it does is offer marginal believers a more acceptable way to swallow what is essentially a very evil idea and one only we, humans, could invent.

Instead of watching "Knowing" why not rent or buy the 1951 version of "The Thing". Another sci fi film with humanistic beliefs throughout of ignorance and knowledge, of good vs. evil, of struggling with fear and the unknown, and the capacity of people to pull together and support oneanother.

Do your brain, your sanity, your faith whatever that is, and your humaness a rest and shun end of days films as the bunk they are. There are large groups of people, mostly in this country, who want you to believe that the world is going to end, yet again, and in the not too distant future. Films like this and "2012" do nothing but feed your fears and promote a terrible belief, an obscene fantasy, and in uncertain times like this we none of us need these types of films. Real life right now is hard enough without a fantasy "reset button" that makes this, our true reality, all go away.

If you can watch this film and go "golly gee" at the special effects then enjoy. If you are one of those people who are troubled by ideas being promoting in churches across this country about the end of days, then avoid this film and watch something else. Don't feed your troubles, your anxieties, your fears, and your doubts. See these flicks for what they are. Gimmicks embracing apocalyptic ideas to get your hard earned money and frankly, gimmicks to promote a idealogy which goes against nature, against faith, and frankly against god.