Knowing

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Alex

It was ok. We saw it at the drive-in since it seemed to be the appropriate level of bad that can be fun when seen that way.

It was bad. But it thought it was being bad in pursuit of something very deep. The two catastrophe set pieces are well over the top but the emphasis on people running around screaming on fire was a bit annoying.

The ending makes sense in that you know what is happening but doesn't make sense in that there is no logical reason for what is happening to be happening.

I give it 1.5 tikis. Go see it if you love Nic Cage despite his recent obsession with schlocky sci-fi, if you want to see a really bad lecture on what "determinism" means vis a vis "randomness", if you love montages of newspaper headlines, or if you can't get enough of explicit yet still thoroughly unreal airplane crashes.

If you WANT to SEE a movie, a drive-in is the worst place to go. Perhaps if you went to a good theater you would have liked it better? Just a thought. And yes, the people on fire part was a bit much. And I kept thinking, why did Nick Cage get there so much faster than all of the emergancy people that were on the sceen?

I like Nick Cage, so that did help. Yes, the ending was trying too hard to be extra deep. But it was a disaster movie in my mind, and it was a good one for me. I never take them too seriously in the first place.