KNOWING Film Review - 8/4/09

Starting off fairly ominously back in 1959 a school places a time capsule in it's playground to be opened 50 years hence. The mysterious numbered list from the capsule is retrieved in the present day and uncannily has predicted the last few decades major disasters with still three to go on the list (..and pretty wince inducing they are when they hit!) A fast race to prevent this from happening turns into a major panic shockingly when things get totally turned on their head? What is even stranger is that the film finishes with a typical Hollywood ending that isn't your typical Hollywood ending - If you get the meaning? At the same time it also becomes a major downer and an uplifting inspirational tale at the the same time at the finish - If you can get the gist of it? How they managed to pull that off I'll never know? Nic Cage really drives this along turning into a panicky, out-of-control character who eventually realises that nothing he can do will alter anything and resigns himself to his fate.