Knowing Trailer Online Nic Cage fights the future - spooky Source: IGN
The last time Nic Cage was able to predict the future, it was in last year’s utterly daft but quite enjoyable thriller, Next.
Well, he’s at it again in his new film, Knowing, but judging from the trailer, which went live today at IGN, this is a very different kettle of fish.
Directed by Alex Proyas, who knows his way around dark sci-fi (he directed The Crow, Dark City and I, Robot, which had some interesting ideas at least), Knowing sees Cage play the father of a young boy who takes home a piece of paper dug up from a time capsule that’s been buried for 50 years.
Seemingly just a jumble of nonsensical numbers, Cage realises that the paper is actually a code which – and he must have spent all night Googling to find this out – reveals the dates, and death tolls, of every single major disaster around the world since the time capsule was buried.
No prizes for guessing that there are still some atrocities to come, and that Cage tries to stop them, while somehow winding up in the middle of it all. But how do you stop something if you know when it’s coming, but not where?
In the wrong hands, of course, this could be utter guff, but the teaser seems to suggest that Cage (who’s had his fair share of clunkers of late) and Proyas are taking this one deadly seriously. It’s shot in austere, muted, blue tones, and there’s an event in the trailer that we’re not going to reveal here – go see for yourself – but it must have taken serious balls to put that on the big screen.
But the overall impression is that Proyas may have created a spooky film on quite a large canvas here – in fact, the premise and execution puts us a little in mind of the Richard Burton horror film, The Medusa Touch.
Still, don’t take our word for it. Go check out the trailer, which also showcases Rose Byrne, now. And if you’re in the mood for another dark movie in which a major cataclysm threatens to engulf the Earth, the trailer for The Day The Earth Stood Still also debuted today. Click here to read about that.
There seems to be a frenzy in hollywood at the moment for any flippin movie that deals with secret codes or texts or whatever that can predict the future, and while they can be fun to watch, they all seem to be getting a little er, samey. Nic Cage's last movie dealing with the future was called NEXT, it was bad and not the so bad it's good kinda bad, just ,plain, BAD. ... Read More
sorry, but that was wince-inducingly bad. cage's line readings alone are enough to make sure i never watch this. i mean seriously, what was proyas thinking?
aaaaaah, now im depressed... ... Read More
Why should titles always have some sort of number instead of letter: Know1ng... It sucks in se7en, which, by the way, was added much much later (I still have the original seven -that is with a v, is say a v- and it sucks here. Anyhoo, no idea what to think of this, Proyas yeej! Cage boo! (Does he HAVE intonation in his voice or???) I'll download it.... ... Read More
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is the film that stopped Richard Kelly doing his Time Capsule Donnie Darko spin off, shame, I would have preferred that. ou mean The Box, and he's shooting that now with Cameron Diaz.
This does look good. I love Cage, and Next was okay, but he does need to hit one out of the park (Ghost Rider was poor and Bangkok Dangerous looks awful).
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No I don't, because the Box is a Twilight Zone remake and could not possibly be linked to Donnie Darko, I meant the film abou... Read More
is the film that stopped Richard Kelly doing his Time Capsule Donnie Darko spin off, shame, I would have preferred that. p;
You mean The Box, and he's shooting that now with Cameron Diaz.
This does look good. I love Cage, and Next was okay, but he does need to hit one out of the park (Ghost Rider was poor and Bangkok Dangerous looks awful). ... Read More
