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Knowing

Knowing is what you should do better prior to entering a Nicolas Cage movie as normally with him you can expect a hairpiece as obnoxious as the film it appears in. There’s no exception here other than it starts with some unpredictable promise. Cage plays John Koestler a hard drinking physics prof but attentive single father to his pre-teen son Caleb (Chandler Canterbury, annoying at first but he grows on you). Professor Koestler gets into the action half a century after a time capsule buried at Caleb’s elementary school is opened. Lucinda Embry (Lara Robinson who also plays Abby, Lucinda’s granddaughter) is one of the kids in 1959 assigned to make a picture for a future student but instead pencilled in a series of numbers. That ends up with Caleb who lately seems to be affected by the same inaudible chatter that used to haunt Lucinda. John soon discovers that the numbers are not random but correspond to every major cataclysmic event in the past 50 years save for two and he sets out to avert the inevitable. Along the way he hooks up with Lucinda’s daughter Diana (Rose Byrne) and her daughter Abby, also privy to hearing that strange chatter apparently originating from the same mysterious guys as back in the 50’s. We’re treated to some eye popping special effects but they can’t shore up the degenerating preachy plot. And I still don’t know how those weird guys could predict the future. Then again how did I know this catastrophic film would be a minor catastrophe?

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