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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Knowing (2009)

Nic Cage didn't fuck this one up; the writers did it before he got there.
It’s a sci-fi/disaster movie that attempts to do something different but only succeeds in dragging its corpse through an uncultivated field of ideas for two hours. A determinism Vs randomness aspect is tacked on in an attempt to deepen the not very interesting mystery.
I got the feeling that it was striving to give the viewer food for thought, but if you take that bait and think about the logic of events for even a second the whole thing comes crashing down. Even Shyamalan would balk.

1½ whisper people out of 5

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