Knowing [Blu-ray] | ![Knowing [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qdG-zQEkL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Alex Proyas
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 121 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 66110366
UPC: 025192031892
EAN: 0025192031892
ASIN: B001GCUNZI
Theatrical Release Date: March 20, 2009
Release Date: July 7, 2009
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Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 7-JUL-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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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
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 My Absolute Favorite Movie! February 8, 2010
"Knowing"
By Hannah Arnold
"Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice..." - Robert Frost
I've heard many people talk constantly about global warming, how the earth will supposedly end in 2012 because of it, how it is a big problem for us today. Personally I don't think this is really true, and its all something that scientists just want us to believe.
The movie "Knowing" is based, I guess, similarly to that.
"Knowing" is a great movie! It starts off with a young girl who, to others, seemed...different. She had a gift, a very special gift. She knew exactly when every disaster would or already had struck. She knew the exact date, exact time, and exact place of almost everything. That same girl that no one understood for years ever got heard. No one did understand her until after her death. Before anyone else, she knew everything, even the last day of Earth.
"Knowing" is a fantastic movie with unbelievable effects and unique features!
One of my favorite scenes is when a plane crashes and blows up with people inside of it. The people get trapped inside of the plane and can't get out. Then the plane explodes, and many of the passengers die.
The weird thing though, is that the girl knew exactly the time, place, date, and the number of people who died when the plane was to crash before it really happened!
Most of it was made by professionals on computers, but it seemed so real!
The smoke, the fire, the music, the dynamics, they were all absolutely stunning, unbelievable! It was amazing!
The moral of the story in my opinion, would be that we should cherish every minute of our lives. Every minute, every second, every breath, is important. We have all have a time that we're supposed to live in and we shouldn't take it for granted.
We shouldn't regret anything we do because it could be useful later in life. We should always forgive, and be able to be forgiven; we should never assume, and forget the bad things in our lives. People should be grateful for everything we do, say, hear, or have because all in all, we're only humans. This is just life, just another test.
We all make mistakes. That's what we, as humans, do...but we're all also capable of moving on. We're all capable of becoming who we want to be...who we should be...
"Knowing" is a great movie with a great moral, and I would recommend this movie to anyone.
Knowing (2009)-a film for cerebral si-fi fans but dissapointing ending. February 6, 2010
Keith Mirenberg (www.spaceanimations.org)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only reason I gave this great movie only three stars and agreed with the average Amazon reviewer was the "so so" animation work at the ending. While the film director was following a very good idea for a storyline, the plot was so great that it raised my expectations to levels that could never have been satisfied by almost any CGI ending! I enjoyed Nicolas Cage's work though. I think Hollywood is getting very good at animating the end of the world. It just needed a little more care at the ending. Definitely worth seeing!
 horrible, awful movie January 28, 2010
Bob Neubauer (Pennsylvania)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was amazed to see ANY positive reviews for this terrible movie. It was a total, eye rolling disappointment--made more so by having a cool premise. But in the end, it was a cheesy let down--even before the end, actually. It took itself so seriously it was almost funny, in a groaning sort of way. How could you not laugh at the classroom scene, when he suddenly gets all pensive in front of his class. So Hollywood fake. Don't waste you time with this.
 Could have trimmed about 30 minutes, but overall riveting and unsettling January 20, 2010
gram parsons (Tuscaloosa, AL USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I didn't know anything about this film. I'd passed over it dozens of times on the rental shelf. Nic Cage? Bleh.
Then I saw something about it on some random "best SCI-Fi films of the decade" so I thought I'd give it a chance.
I was riveted. The story is suspenseful, thrilling, inspirational, unsettling, morbid and hopeful all at once. I watched it again with my wife and she brought out several points I had not seen. It deserves repeated viewings.
I won't go into the plot or details--just saying if you're into supernatural sci-fi "everything has a meaning" type films, give Knowing a try. Reminded me of Signs and Close Encounters a little bit.
 another dopey end-of-the-world saga January 16, 2010
Roland E. Zwick (Valencia, Ca USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
*PLOT SPOILERS*
In 1959, a grade-school Nostradamus puts a piece of paper containing seemingly random numbers into a time capsule. When the container is opened fifty years later, it turns out that the numbers were not random at all but rather numerical predictions of future disasters, pinpointing the dates they were to occur and the number of people who would lose their lives in them. Enter John Koestler, a professor of astrophysics at MIT, who decodes the messages and becomes convinced that if he can just get others to heed the warnings, he'll somehow be able to avert the catastrophes. Unfortunately, John soon discovers that these piddling little disasters are mere warm-up exercises for the Big Cataclysmic Kahuna that is to come...
In "Knowing," the cliches of plot and character come fast and furious. John is a single dad who turns to atheism after his wife dies in a hotel fire, convinced that nothing happens for a reason and that life is nothing more than a series of random events, blah, blah, blah. As usual, the atheist - an egg headed scientist, naturally - has to be shown that there is indeed a higher power somewhere controlling our destinies. I guess we're just supposed to accept that fact and not question the appalling nature of that being's actions as he proceeds to wipe out an entire planet (the movie manages to combine elements of the Adam-and-Eve and Noah`s Ark tales into a single story).
In the tradition of "Armageddon," "The Core," "2012," etc., "Knowing" is an apocalyptic chiller that reduces the destruction of all life on the planet to the level of a cheap carnival thrill ride. Nicholas Cage - who is stuck in yet another of those Droopy Dog save-the-world roles that have become all too prevalent in his career of late - does what he can with a script that starts off with a reasonably intriguing premise, then fritters it away on giggle-inducing hysterical-crowd scenes and a dopey subplot involving extraterrestrials that should have Steven Spielberg suing the makers for copyright-infringement. And the be-fruitful-and-multiply ending is as queasy as it is implausible.
There are additional wooden performances by other members of the cast, but the kindest thing would be to let them remain nameless and to forget that any of them were ever even in this picture.
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