"Knowing" 2009 Movie is a NEW Genre and Story for All Sci-fi Freaks

This sci-fi supernatural thriller, starring Nicolas Cage, has all the NEW special effects of films like "Contact, X-Files, Close Encounters and Asteroid" because of it's excellent sci-fi tale of a little elementary school girl in 1959, that has written down a series of random numbers somehow predicting the future colossal and destructive events taking place all the earth for the next 50 years.

"Weird and young Lucinda Embry", in 1959 and other elementary school mates were getting ready to place their drawings or whatever they could possible think of into a 50 year time capsule, buried in front of the school. Although, Lucinda was interrupted by her teacher, she was horribly unable to finish the final numbers."Lost Lucinda", teachers finally found her in a downstairs school closet scratching out these final numbers with her bloody finger nails, (which ironically has a tremendous bearing on this "excellent" sci-fi story film).

Film writers have finally came up with something NEW and not so cliche of past making sci-fi films in history. Especially the idea of "Knowing" and using mathematical numbers to predict certain dates, longitude and latitude, (taking this simple story to a broader horizon for sci-fi freaks) written by this "strange" child, 50 years before hand, which MIT professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) and his son Caleb seemingly discovered while his school was opening this 50 year old time capsule.

This mystery sci-fi film does remind me of "Close Encounters" and "Contact" at times because of the use of numerical digits. (Which Albert Einstein proved that the universe is made up of mathematical formulas). After young Caleb receives this envelope with this numbers writings, he begins to see supernatural spirits of a man around his house later on during the night. Professor Koestler takes the envelope and lays it on the side of the kitchen table, not "Knowing" what it really was?

During John's drunken stupor into the night, because he misses his lost wife so much, sees the letter and realizes the first digits "9112001?" And thinks? "This is weird!" How can a small child perceive these particular numbers 41 years in advance? in the year of 1959? After closely reading, "John then sees the numbers of the date his wife was killed in a hotel fire two years earlier".

MIT Professor Koestler (Nicolas Cage) then proceeds to look up these numbers written on this simple piece of paper, on the internet which mysterically showed past historical event dates and places of "catastrophe occurrences" of deaths that have tragically occurred all over the the earth for the past 50 years? Unfortunately, there are (3) dates to come in the near future of the next week for John and his young son Caleb and also anyone here on earth?

John is reluctantly stuck in traffic a few days later and looks at his GPS and sees the numbers listed, and finally realizes these are global co-ordinates of longitude and latitude in his vehicle? "Moments later, a commercial airplane crashes" in his location just behind him? Which showed excellent special visual effects and Nicolas' Cage exceptional talent as a dramatic actor trying to help these innocent victims of this tragic plane crash that he had previously read the number 81 on this "weird piece of written paper?".

John, then sees the number of the longitude and latitude and also the date of the "next horrible tragedy" on this piece of paper, written by this small child 50 years earlier and without any luck, tries to warn the local police and authorities that this catastrophe event will take place in the exact time mentioned using the 911 emergency number.

This MIT professor goes innoncently to this particular location and then suddenly "realizes" that the police are searching for him? because he had predicted the previous plane crash over the phone. "Runs down into the subway" trying to evade these local police authorities. Not "Knowing" that this subway train would eventually crash killing the number of lives as predicted in this little girls piece of paper in 1959 that he had later on received in 2009?

This truly remarkable modern day sci-fi film has a "Great computer visual ending!" Which is well worth spending the money in the big screen theater or later on in a DVD rental or even a purchase. I would personally recommend this excellent film for viewers over the age of 12 years of age simply because of the often times "Complicated" meaning of the story and how it affects all human beings here on earth. "It has NO abusive language or nudity"

Thanks for reading,

Phillip Chambley.