Knowing
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Nigel Floyd
Mixing Spielbergian child-like wonder, disaster movie spectacle and the cod-religious silliness of M Night Shyamalan's 'Signs'. The premise is compelling, but the execution is over-cooked.
Ben Lyons
There's nothing really special about this film, other than an interesting premise.
Ben Mankiewicz
Things started to fall off of the deep end very quickly.
Stephanie Zacharek
If Alex Proyas' Knowing were reasonably entertaining -- instead of just dour, pointless and tedious -- it would be a camp classic.
Owen Gleiberman
If you want to know how inept the movie is...well, it's so inept that you may wish you were watching an M. Night Shyamalan version of the very same premise.
Kyle Smith
The movie begins shameless, grows stupid and winds up silly. If the ending had less of the air of a crackpot religion and more pretentiousness, you could almost call it Shyamalanish.
Critic reviews
Nigel Floyd
Mixing Spielbergian child-like wonder, disaster movie spectacle and the cod-religious silliness of M Night Shyamalan's 'Signs'. The premise is compelling, but the execution is over-cooked.
Ben Lyons
There's nothing really special about this film, other than an interesting premise.
Stephanie Zacharek
If Alex Proyas' Knowing were reasonably entertaining -- instead of just dour, pointless and tedious -- it would be a camp classic.
Owen Gleiberman
If you want to know how inept the movie is...well, it's so inept that you may wish you were watching an M. Night Shyamalan version of the very same premise.
Kyle Smith
The movie begins shameless, grows stupid and winds up silly. If the ending had less of the air of a crackpot religion and more pretentiousness, you could almost call it Shyamalanish.
Stephen Whitty
An uneasy blending of sci-fi and religion, fate and faith -- the same mish-mash that has bedeviled most of M. Night Shyamalan's recent movies, and leaves this film leaden with self-importance.
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Cast and credits
| Actors | Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Laura Robinson |
| Producers | Steve Tisch, Alex Proyas, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal |
| Director | Alex Proyas |
| Writers | Juliet Snowden, Stiles White, Ryne Douglas Pearson |
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Run time
121 minutes
Rating
PG-13
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