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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.

After discovering the true meaning of all the numbers, John begins to find Lucinda Embry to know the unfinished numbers as well as the needs to know what happen after 2009.

The Story
At first, I thought Knowing was great. Chilling and thrilling in the first half with exciting and breath-taking disasters that happened in the very eyes of John. He thought that he could stop disasters from happening by knowing and understanding the numbers. However, he was wrong. Indeed, when I found out what Knowing was all about in the second half, I grew tired of it and thought that it would be a better movie if it were in another genre.

Still, I continue watching Knowing in order to know what happened in the end. Disappointing, I would say, after all those excitement and eerie environment.

Effects
I thought the effects in Knowing were great; plane came crashing down and train derailed, swiping people standing in its way mercilessly. But still, all these came from the first half of the movie. The excitement somehow lost in the second half of the movie. Needless to say, Knowing was boring and the effects were unrealistic in the end.

Verdict
It was mysterious when John tried to find out what will happen when the numbers run out. The accident that happened and caused her wife’s life was in the numbers written by Lucinda Embry. Hence, John thought that the piece of paper with numbers have something to do with his son and him. I thought the plot was great with a lot of mysteries but still, I have to say that the second half was a let down. I could not imagine that the ending was just like that. Maybe, they ran out of ideas.