KNOWING

I have a dirty little secret I'd like to admit.  I like Nicolas Cage.  I think he's the king of the crappy but thoroughly entertaining movie.  He always gives 100% into the role, even if it means it comes out as 100% pure unintentional comedy.  He's at his Nicolas Cage best in this movie, playing an MIT professor of Astrophysics (of all things), living as a widowed father of a 10 year old boy in a very big, very creepy house in Lexington, Massachusetts. 

50 years ago, the local elementary school placed a time capsule in the ground outside the school.  Within the capsule, most students drew pictures of the future, except for one girl, who scribbled seemingly nonsensical numbers onto a piece of paper, that of course, turn out to make perfect sense, and ends up in the hands of one brilliant professor at MIT.  Nic Cage to the rescue!!

I won't ruin the surprise of what the numbers mean, but suffice to say, it's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel surprisingly ok..... Up to now, I'm actually with the story, for the most part.  I enjoy the conspiracy theories in movies and I like it when you need to figure out what's going to happen next.  That's when, for me, it completely falls apart. 

The big twist at the end of the film is absurd.  I felt like it belonged in a different movie.  It was a total non-sequitor to the lead-up to that point, and I hated it.  Ruined the entire movie for me.  Having said that, I liked the first 90 or so minutes, but highly disliked the last half hour.  I'll go 2.5 out of 5, and get what I deserve for buying into Professor Extraordinaire, Nicolas Cage.  Not recommended for you viewing pleasure.