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KNOWING (Cert. 15, 121 mins)
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, D.G. Maloney, Lara Robinson, Nadia Townsend
Directed by Alex Proyas
FIFTY years after a group of elementary school children bury their drawings of the future in a time capsule, a new generation of curious tykes opens the container.
Inside, young Caleb Koestler discovers a sheet of paper written by a little girl, Lucinda Embry (Robinson), which at first glance seems to be lines of random numbers.
When Caleb’s widower father, astrophysics professor John Koestler, examines the sequence, he identifies the exact dates and death tolls of every major catastrophe to befall mankind. When a plane crash validates the prediction, John races against time to unlock the secret of the final numbers.
Knowing surrenders its loose grasp on reality as father and son become embroiled in a series of spectacular, jaw-dropping, action set-pieces and somehow keeps a straight face as the plot twists and turns to its outlandish resolution.
Apparently, reading this review will have no effect on your decision to see Knowing or stay away.
That choice is predetermined; so, too, is your ambivalence when you leave the cinema.
