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Time: 5 Aug 2009 16:20:05 Category: Movie Reviews Post Views: 1044 Your say: 4 comments
I have always quite fancied watching movies casting Nicholas Cage since I watched Face Off. Among the movies that I watched were Gone in 60 Seconds, Bringing Out the Dead, National Treasure, World Trade Center, Ghost Rider, Bangkok Dangerous and now, Knowing. I always thought that he has the look and voice which could easily make you concentrates on watching and listening to him even though he is not very good looking. However, I almost fell asleep while watching Knowing.

Preview
It is year 1959 when a new elementary school celebrates its opening with an idea came from one of its students. The idea is to plant a time capsule and it shall be opened 50 years later. In addition, each of the students is given the opportunity to draw a picture of the future which will then be inserted into the time capsule. While the students are drawing their pictures, a teacher discovers that one of her students is writing numbers on the paper instead. In fact, the student, Lucinda Embry is the originator of the time capsule idea. The teacher is confused but she takes the paper away from Lucinda since the time is up, leaving Lucinda’s work unfinished.

50 years later, the time capsule is unearthed. All current students are handed a drawing kept in the time capsule. Caleb, the son of MIT professor, John Koestler, receives Lucinda’s envelope. He does not know what the numbers mean but since then, he keeps hearing whispers. On the other hand, John discovers the ‘drawing’ in Caleb’s school bag and he soon finds the numbers to be dates and death tolls of every major disaster since 1959. However, a scientist friend believes that John’s loss of his wife has made him gone a bit extreme, as there are unexplained numbers on the list.

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