Knowing

Rating: 7.2/10
Genre: Suspense
Overall value for money and time: 6.8/10

Knowing what you already know from the trailers is more than enough. Knowing what happens when the numbers run out, a novel and interesting concept. Knowing what happens just before the numbers run out, THAT, will disappoint... The plot of the story and the ending didn't synergize. Everything went well until the ending when a massive number of loopholes started surfacing.

Back in 1959, a time capsule containing drawings of a class of students on their perception of the future was buried in a new elementary school. 50 years later, the time capsule was opened and there was a "drawing" which contains a string of numbers. This piece of paper landed in the hands of an MIT professor, who later realised that the numbers predicted the great tragedies in history (then the future), with 3 dates still to occur. It's a difficult plot to summarize in such a short paragraph since most of it was well covered in the first 15 minutes of the movie. The movie set me at the edge of my seat right from the very start and as the story gradually unravelled, it got more and more intense. At the rate and direction which the movie was going, I couldn't see how it would disappoint me. I was wrong. The "solution" and "purpose" was too far-fetched. The most I'll disclose is that this movie is a mix of the movies "Number 23" and "The Day The Earth Stood Still". I shall keep the loopholes in the loop since the plot is the main attraction of this movie.

Don't get me wrong. This isn't a bad movie. The ending was bad, but everything else was decent - the story development, the build up, the concept and the special effects. Most of it made sense and fitted the plot. The acting wasn't top notch, but the cast managed to pull it off. Though the genre of this movie states that this is a suspense film, it has elements of a typical horror movie - the dark, moody settings and the eccentric characters. But don't worry, you don't have to mentally prepare yourself for apparitions or zombies at the end of the movie, but something supernatural is bound to happen...