The ultimate movie experience is to enter into a cinema not knowing what the movie was all about and then get swept on a journey filled with thrills and spills and then leaving the cinema as if you just got sent back to Earth by a UFO.
This was what Knowing did to me.
Right from the beginning, the colour and texture had this creepy, classical horror movie feel to it. That little girl was hauntingly good. Everything about the setup for the rest of the movie was just perfect.
The director Alex Proyas seemed to have studied M. Night Shyamalan (or whoever M. Night studied) because on the whole, that’s what it felt like. The way the camera angled or the way a scene was shot, just like what M. Night would have done. I love M. Night so this was meant to be a compliment though I’m sure none of the above will see it that way.
And when we finally got a close-up of the alien being, it was M. Night’s Signs all over again.
Throughout the movie, I’ve had so many goosebump moments that I’ve lost track in count. But I’m definite no other movies have given me this many. All the coincidences of events made for an intriguing and interesting topic and they were all well done.
The two disaster scenes were great given that the budget of this movie wasn’t as generous as other CGI movies (I can only assume). The first one was fantastically horrific and the second one was equally scary that I’m surprised this was actually a PG-13 movie. But both gave the audience such a dark ride that made the movie even more. Proyas really made it work under whatever circumstances or budget constraints.
The accompanying music in the background suited the bleakness of the theme and added to the effects. The actors all did a competent enough a job.
The only downside of the movie was the heavy religious undertone. Especially the last five minutes of in the end, which was totally unnecessary. The movie could have ended with Cage saying goodbye and that’s it. The rest of those ten minutes didn’t really do much for me.
But this is one movie I wouldn’t mind re-experiencing again soon.
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