Knowing

Rating: PG-13

Movie Release Date: March 20, 2009

DVD Release Date: July 7, 2009

Plot 411: When a time capsule is dug up at his son's school, John discovers that a 50-year-old letter correctly predicts all the major disasters that have occurred.

Review: Nicholas Cage plays John, a college professor teaching astrophysics at MIT. When his son receives a 50-year-old letter, John uncovers a code that details every major disaster that has happened. This spurs him to find the letter's writer and anyone connected to her in order to prevent future events. When John learns the writer is dead, he seeks out her daughter (Rose Byrne) Diana. In the meantime, John's son Caleb (Chandler Canterbury) begins to hear whispered voices in his head and see visions of destruction. To me, this movie made no sense at all. After establishing that John is a professor at a prestigious university, he spends the rest of the movie running around town like effin Indiana Jones. He is so not Indy. Another baffling thing is the numerology involved in the plot. Apparently the writer was possessed by something that made her write all these numbers down. These numbers predicted mass casualties in the future. Caleb also becomes possessed and writes a series of numbers at one point in the film, yet these numbers do not come to fruition. Why would one work and not the other? There are just too many plot holes in this film for it to work for me.

Watch It: If you're a Nick Cage fan or into the sci fi genre.

Skip It: If you're a fan of a good movie.