Knowing

Is life on Earth a concoction of random, coincidental circumstances or is everything predetermined and calculated? This is the interesting premise of Knowing.

A fifty years old time capsule is recovered from a US primary school and one of the documents from it contains a mass of numbers. Do the numbers mean anything? As luck would have it (and indeed as part of the movie's premise) the document falls into the hands of Nicholas Cage who with remarkable clarity and skill during his drunken moments twigs to the fact that the numbers seem to relate to cataclysmic events in world history. Are there more to come and what can Cage do about it?

For about two thirds of its length Knowing remained entertaining and just about close enough to remote believability for me to care about what was happening. As always with this type of film, the longer it goes the closer you get to wondering how on earth they will bring it to a resolution. In the case of Knowing, the answer turns out to be - not very satisfactorily. That is a pity because until those last twenty minutes or so, I was having great fun going along for the ride.