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(1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 32% Rotten Page   1   3/5 "Knowing is a bit of a revelation. Against all odds, it's not actually half bad."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke "what at first seems a simple premise with a dumb-assed popcorn resolution might well unravel in your head into something altogether more resonant and perplexing (or not)."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel "Among the most troubling elements of 'Knowing' are its dark cinematography, outlandish plot, and a less-than-memorable performance by Nicolas Cage."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 4/5 "daring and deliberate, as if Proyas wanted to purposely undermine the expectations of the standard popcorn pandering"   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron 2/4 "A broad, leisurely jumble of Alfred Hitchcock-style suspense architecture and a dreary, paint-by-numbers Sci-Fi Channel Original, Knowing only seems to extract two reactions: nail-biting and eye-rolling."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   Brian Orndorf 1/5 "It's the next bold entry in the genre of Hilariously Terrible Nicolas Cage Movies."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius C "I know for sure Knowing is an apocalyptic allegorical sci-fi film whose plot is absurd, even for a B-film sci-fier."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Alternately ludicrous, eerily plausible and just a tad overreaching, the film shares its finer points with shortcomings and comes up with an overall cinematic experience more ambitious than most big-budget special effects extravaganzas."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B "In the end, the whole thing's rather preposterous -- but you gotta admire Proyas' nerve for going there."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "This year's prize for most ludicrous set-up and most ludicrous punchline"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce D "So silly that it not only strains credulity--it shatters it and then stomps it into infinitesimal pieces."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "Knowing is a classic case of a movie that is crammed with interesting ideas but is unable to conceptualize them in a compelling fashion."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 2/5 "click for full review"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 1/5 " Some producers sat in a screening room and thought, "Wow, this is gonna be great!" I give the filmmakers kudos for fully committing to an ending that others might have tried to mitigate or avert. They also fully committed to the immensely stupid surprise"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2.0/4.0 "... starts off as director Alex Proyas's take on "Final Destination" before going all "Close Encounters" on us. If only we hadn't seen it all before."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3.5/5 "Knowing is a complex movie that is waaaaay out there. Sure, these ideas are pretty far on the fringe, but they make for some pretty exciting movie watching."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 1/5 "I don't know if I can find words to adequately express just how bad Knowing is, but I'm going to try, in the hopes that perhaps I can save you spending your own hard-earned money in a tight economy on a truly wretched movie-going experience."   Movie City News   Kim Voynar ""Front-loaded with a pervasive sense of unease ... but once the plot's wheels start grinding in earnest, [it] follows that runaway subway train off the rails.""   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh 8/10 "I like the sheer quantity of ideas in this film, but I am not sure that they all fit so nicely together. I expect with some thought the flaws will seem less important and the audacity of the plot will win out."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "Imagine that the nitwits who wrote those preposterous Left Behind apocalyptic end-times fantasies decided to try their pens at something X-Files-y..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 4/4 "The movie has all the thematic depth of a really great arthouse film wrapped in the action and excitement of a first-rate Hollywood action picture."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan D "It is predictable hogwash, and it gets even hogwashier until it arrives at an ending that manages to be inevitable, uninspired, and preposterous."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2/4 "The promise that Alex Proyas showed with 1998's Dark City is only very sporadically evident in Knowing, the director's second sci-fi saga."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "Presságio é o que Sinais e Os Esquecidos tentaram desesperadamente ser."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca "A mind-blowing blend of apocalyptic imagery and metaphysical discussion that is easily the best film of its type since "Southland Tales" (and I should stress that I mean that as a compliment)."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "Unfortunately, the movie gets nutty in its second half (probably the same half that will endear the film to its inevitable cult fans)."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D+ "There's nothing to do but shake your head in awestruck wonder: as much for its squandered beginning as for its truly ridiculous conclusion."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux B "It predicts a future when people act courageously and selflessly to preserve their families and the future of mankind. I can get behind that."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 1/10 "Seldom has one movie offered so much fertile ground for ridicule..."   Playback:stl   Sarah Boslaugh "Despite an intriguing premise and a handful of exciting special effects scenes, this science fiction thriller lumbers along like an overweight leviathan, unable to see much past its own nose - let alone into the future."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski 4/10 "Apocalyptic sci-fi thrillers are supposed to be thought-provoking and supernaturally suspenseful, but this is just paranormally dopey."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "It's the worst kind of idiocy, the kind that's wholly invested in its own profundity."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2.5/5 "Knowing is the Michael Crichton book that never was: a paper-thin mystery with brilliant, interesting ideas grafted onto it, made into a loud, clunky, badly cast action picture that sucks the intrigue from the coolest concepts."   DVDTalk.com   Tyler Foster  (1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 32% Rotten Page   1