The Knowing

Its been a while since my last blog entry due to circumstances beyond my will however, i thought id start again and begin what i like to call, 'Rory's film entries'. It will have many sequels like any Sylvester Stallone film but without the tedious and inevitable endings.

My first entry in this series is not my favourite film but instead, the film which iv only just finished watching. I decided to go against my better judgement, and actually watch a Nicolas Cage film. In my opinion, his films aren't bad, its just that fact that he has the same pose in every single film that he is in (legs astride, chest out, shoulders back, looking up every so slightly), and he manages to fit it into this film as well.

Enough of my Cage rant and more about the film.

Story: Based around a list of numbers written in 1959 which predict all major disasters happening in the next 5 decades. The list is then put in a time capsule and dug up 50 years later. Enter Nicolas Cage. Events unfold as the list predicts. Strange people turn up occasionally. Rocks are handed out. Fires! Crashes! Tears! A little bit of stalking. A man with a light in his mouth (very strange, kinda reminded me of old Greg but different orifice) More stalking, more rocks, more fire. The End

Good things:

1. It is one of the only disaster films I've seen in a long time which lives up to its promise and kills everyone on the planet earth
2. The effects are visually exciting and fairly realistic
3. The plot seems to keep the viewer hooked whilst also allowing a bit of creative thinking on the audiences behalf
4. The Ending sequence uses music as a direct contrast with the visuals and so feels very poetic

Bad things:

1. Nicolas cage is out-acted by a 9 year old
2. Very, very cheesy ending
3. Moments in the film which seem as if they were there to shock the audience, came up short and didn't cause a reaction in me
4. There are mistakes in the film such as match moving errors, where the actual props and the visual props aren't properly aligned.
5. Other errors involve factual errors, continuity errors and prop mistakes (Aussie cars, licence plates and products in America)