#10 Knowing
Year: 2009
Director: Alex Proyas
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Epic Co-stars: None
Running Time: 121 mins.Cage Time: ~95%
Cage Kills: 0
Cage Flip-outs: 5
James' Review: As the movie opens Cage plays a genius professor and loving single father, but over the next two hours this character slowly transforms into the half cocked, moderately insane, and partially psychotic person that is in every great Cage character. The fun begins when Cage receivers a page full of rambling numbers that has recently been unearthed from a time capsule at his sons school. He applies his genius to this page and can suddenly predict every major natural disaster including the biggest/worst one ever that is coincidentally coming in rather short period of time.
In addition to a decently solid Nouveau Shamanic performance, Knowing contains several pretty awesome action / destruction sequences. One of which has an impressive series of helpless people suffering as they burn to death. In the end, the plot-line goes a bit flat as it tires (and fails) to tie up some loose ends, but this is all forgiven with the onset of one of the coolest end-of-days sequences I've seen in quite a long time.
In addition to the epic destruction, Nic Cage's hair borderlines on perfection during almost every second of the film. Sporting one of the deepest, most puffy hairlines in all of show business, his hair often resembles a beautiful and majestic bird with light weightless feathers. This hair, coupled with some of the most intensely concerned facial expression around, allows Nicolas Cage to easily be mistaken for a god on the big screen. But after several minutes of reflection one will come to the realization that this is not a case of mistaken identity, that your eyes haven't deceived you, that Nicolas Cage TRULY IS GOD.
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| Nouveau Shamonic + Total Destruction = Classic cage goodness. |
In addition to a decently solid Nouveau Shamanic performance, Knowing contains several pretty awesome action / destruction sequences. One of which has an impressive series of helpless people suffering as they burn to death. In the end, the plot-line goes a bit flat as it tires (and fails) to tie up some loose ends, but this is all forgiven with the onset of one of the coolest end-of-days sequences I've seen in quite a long time.
| Even Nic Cage himself is shocked by the beauty of his own hair in this film. |
In addition to the epic destruction, Nic Cage's hair borderlines on perfection during almost every second of the film. Sporting one of the deepest, most puffy hairlines in all of show business, his hair often resembles a beautiful and majestic bird with light weightless feathers. This hair, coupled with some of the most intensely concerned facial expression around, allows Nicolas Cage to easily be mistaken for a god on the big screen. But after several minutes of reflection one will come to the realization that this is not a case of mistaken identity, that your eyes haven't deceived you, that Nicolas Cage TRULY IS GOD.
Movie quotability: 2/5
Plot Holes:- "I think that shit just happens. But that's just me..."
- "You stay away from us you hear? You want some of this?" (hits tree with bat)
- "How am I supposed to stop the end of the world" (Diana gasps...
- Kid decides his hearing aid sucks and can suddenly hear without having his hearing aid in. (Nonsense disability)
- Supposedly "good mom" puts her daughter in the front seat of her car and races away like a maniac in her Mazda 3. Leaves children in car multiple times.
- "micro-teslas" are not a unit of solar radiation. And even if it was, it'd be totally insignificant to any other magnetic field in our daily lives.
- A pay phone still exists in a gas station parking lot, and the 9 year old carries plenty of change.
- Black rocks? WTF?
CAGEamatic
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Cinematic
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| Skyler |
Exceeds Expectations
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Poor
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| James |
3.71/5
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3.29/5
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| Martine |
!Stayed in the Cage!
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