Movie Review - Knowing

Gene and I went on a date last night. We actually had plans to go to the gym, but I forgot to ask Gene to grab my gym bag. Since we already had a babysitter for a few hours, we decided to take advantage of that and go to a movie. We went and saw the movie Knowing. Here is the synopsis of the movie...

Nicolas Cage stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future—and sets out to prevent them from coming... Nicolas Cage stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future—and sets out to prevent them from coming true.

In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.

Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule’s contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young CALEB KOESTLER. But it is Caleb’s father, professor JOHN KOESTLER (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As John further unravels the document’s chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son. When John’s attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place.

With the reluctant help of DIANA WAYLAND (Rose Byrne) and ABBY WAYLAND, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John’s increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster—and the ultimate sacrifice...

So the movie was pretty good. In fact, it almost had a scary movie feeling through the whole thing. Gene and I both agree that this was a really good movie up until the last 20 minutes. I won't spoil the ending for you, but it definitely wasn't what we were expecting...I mean that in a bad way. I don't know, I wouldn't say it was a waste of money, but I kind of wish we had gone to something else.