DVD reviews: Knowing

by Lynn Ansell

Format DVD From Icon Rated M

Who’s immune to the shallow but immediate gratification Hollywood blockbusters can offer? No-one. But honestly, Knowing really tests the limits. In fact, Knowing is so bad that I’m going to act as a spoiler: in this film, everybody on the planet dies.

There you go, do you still want to see it? Once upon a time, Nicolas Cage could act. What happened to this guy? In Knowing he looks like he can hardly be bothered at all. But it doesn’t really matter when the special effects are doing most of the work, does it?Except that the SFX frequently look cheap and unrealistic.

And while Knowing has a fascinating, apocalyptic scenario, it’s botched irredeemably in every conceivable way.

Sound 3

Image 3

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