the poster for the movie was earth burning up, which actually is a spoiler for the ending of the film.

I liked knowing, though I feel like it wasn't quite worth the four stars that Ebert gave it. At the same time, this review (at least Colin's part of it) feels overly harsh, and constantly referring to Cage as "horse face" is especially unwarranted.

@cindytartt4048

2 жыл бұрын

But he’s kind of right….

It's a film. You have to look at the actor.

Nick Cage- He came, he saw, he cantered...

To be honest, I quite enjoy Knowing. Cage was indeed horseface on the basis of this film, Alex Proyas did a good job at sticking true the film's Twilight Zone-isn premise without copping out. However, the one true defendor towards the film which is considered great, is Roger Ebert.

Just watched the movie, it's really not that bad at all. I can't really understand Colin Murray's hatred of it, because if you apply that level of criticism to this film then you'd have to say 90% of films are the 'worst film ever made'. Kermode is pretty bang on and I'm glad he stuck up for it a little. It's a perfectly watchable and enjoyable movie. Something like a 6 out of 10 i'd rate it.

Mark Kermode looks like the old Andy Dufresne in the Shawshank Redemption. LOL!

It's kind of a masterpiece.

"It's easy to laugh at a burning moose" -- Mark Kermode, 2009.

After recent events I'm looking at this movie again and realizing it's brilliance.

@Jonatan606

4 жыл бұрын

Nah it's still just a bang average movie.

@armyofuno8196

Жыл бұрын

@@Jonatan606 you must really not like movies then

@alansmithee4927

Жыл бұрын

@@armyofuno8196 lol if you don’t like this one movie you must not like movies, what a stupid thing to say. This movie is dumb, boring and predictable with boring cookie cutter characters, horrible child acting and a shallow story.

@armyofuno8196

Жыл бұрын

@@alansmithee4927 I guess we both have just different taste, you like bad movies, I like good ones, you like asylum level quality I'll stick with good acting, good metaphors and meanings, and original storytelling.

@alansmithee4927

Жыл бұрын

@@armyofuno8196 lmao are you joking. I like movies that actually take artistic liberties and do something new and special. Look up the criterion collection and watch those if you want to watch something good

I loved the movie too.... Cage did an excellent job in this movie... so did the boy...

Confused Matthew is a frequently unstable creature but his review of this monstrosity is just beautiful.

I can never tell whether or not Nicolas Cage is giving a comedic performance. I first saw him in Moonstruck. I remain undecided. As for Knowing, I resented the way I was suckered into watching an pro End Times/evangelical movie in the guise of science fiction.

I agree with the criticisms about Mark's comments on Cage's looks. I'm a fan of Mark, but if those kind of comments were made about a woman he'd be quite cross about it. And quite rightfully so. I don't see why a male actor shouldn't be spared the same kind of treatment.

@leehodge9741

6 жыл бұрын

Nic' Cage was born female

@cindytartt4048

2 жыл бұрын

For gods sake: don’t be an apologist. For a millennia, women have been laughed at, sneered at, gossiped about: from looks to intellect. Surely Cage can defend himself from whatever gnarly nonsense foisted upon him here. As for women, we’ll still be told we’re ugly, or overweight liars with fat cheeks who need bigger boobs or higher voices. 🙄🙄🙄

I loved the movie...

Would have thought the physical appearance of an actor was maybe quite important, in a film.

I really enjoyed this film. Don’t know what they are both on about. The CGI bits were fine, the story is good, and the ending is great.

he has. If you subscribe to the podcast on eye toons you can hear the review, it was a couple of podcasts ago.

I've just watched this film and it was perfectly fine. Granted the peformances were dire (even Rose Byrne was bad) and the CGI was terrible, but it's a cheesy, flimsy, end-of-the-world Nicolas Cage B-movie, and as such it was bloody good, hilarious fun.

LOL sassy staff comebacks are the best.

has anyone got a video of Mark actually talking about "Rugsuckers From Mars"? I'm intrigued

I loved Knowing, seems to make up for every bad armageddon film that's come before. But Mr Murray, lighten the fuck up about it will you. Bad CGI? No way! The plane crash sequence was awesome, and the pay off at the end was pretty hair raising. I'm with Mark on this, and I do wish Nick Cage would do more films like this, because I've always been a fan

I thought the plane crash looked pretty amazing considering the year it came out.

"It's not wooden, it's equine." Lul.

I like this film a lot. Nicolas Cage is a fine actor.

Really? Insulting the way a person looks, something they have no control over, rather than talking about their actual performance is quite important? That seems a rather lame excuse to be mean.

new nick cage movie *colin whistles* (mark, amused) what was that, a whistle or the sound of the tumblweeds blowing through an empty street? hahaha no sound could be more appropriate on hearing the phrase 'new nick cage movie' nowadays

I wonder if Mark has seen Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room'

Well at least he's not being hypocritical - He's from the radio after all.

I love Colin's Fonzie line :)

I love The Crow, havent seen Dark City.

@0ooTheMAXXoo0

4 жыл бұрын

Goochbot I liked all three of these films, The Crow, Knowing, Dark City.

2:42 - random extra guy with headphones darts a longing look at the camera.

I love "Dark City".

Good review, but Mark, someone saying "the worst movie they've ever seen" is different than "the worst movie out there". Sure you could expose them to worse, but as it is, that particular movie is the worst that they've experienced! Whole different thing.

'It's east to laugh at a burning moose'

Nic Cage was very good in Leaving Las Vegas so he gets a pass from me. He can be rubbish in rubbish films but he was terrific in Leaving Las Vegas. He is a better actor than I am so fair play to him :D

@0ooTheMAXXoo0

4 жыл бұрын

MJHaylett Cage was known as one of the best actors until popular culture decided he is to blame for all bad movies he was in.

Love your reviews but besmirching the inimitable Nic Cage, the 🐐, gets you 20 demerits. And incidentally Alex Proyas, who also directed The Crow and Dark City, made a solid film here. JM2C.

It's a masterpiece...

'Knowing' is a good enough movie to enjoy, though if you really don't like Nick Cage then how can you enjoy any movie he's in? Plane Crash Scene; Nick is talking to a cop, the cop makes a face of astonishment because he's sees the plane coming.. then.. the plane comes from a different direction! What the hell was the cop looking at? The ending of the movie paid off for me. Certainly not one of the worst movies ever. 'Bad Boys 2' is the worst movie ever.

This film was so predicatable I actually thought I'd seen it before.

Well, it IS redeemed by its ending...

Which IS thr worst film ever made? Monster A-Go-Go? Manos: The Hands of Fate? The Beast of Yucca Flats? The Room? Or something done by Uwe Boll?

@Luvie1980 My condolences !

Wow Simon looks so young here.

Again, that seems a flimsy excuse to be mean. Especially when one is simply saying something to the effect of "oh look, it's Nick Cage, he looks like a horse, lets all laugh at him."

I wasn't sure, but it turns out that it is easy to laugh at a burning moose.

I put it on my top 10 list. It was fantastic.

@shan4680

4 жыл бұрын

It's about 6 years later, have you seen more than 10 films yet? jk

Can I come round to your house, please?

I reckon a remake would benefit the movie.

Knowing ends with a solar flare destroying the entire planet Earth, killing everyone on it (including Cage's character), as predicted by the numbers. The only survivors are a few children (including Cage's character's son) who have been collected and saved by aliens and transported to a different planet to start anew. SPOILERS ABOVE.

“1 of the most versatile actors of all time.” LMAO. 😆😆😹😸

I loved it...great film...

Still the only movie, I ever walked out on in a cinema... with 60 seconds or so to go.

@cindytartt4048

2 жыл бұрын

I hear you: The cup of tea was waiting (or coffee, for me).

I was an extra in that movie.

Normally I hate to see Kermode without Mayo. I kind of like this guy, though.

And yes, this was a rip off of Signs, and some Final Destination thrown in.. however, it is a fun watch

I think switchbuckle5th may BE Nick Cage.

Can't believe the director of DARK CITY was responsible for this misfire.

@eyeofaaron Worse than the portentions of Ian Beale?

'Lady In The Water' is a great film though. Soz MK.

Which IS the worst film ever made? Monster A-Go-Go? Manos: The Hands of Fate? The Beast of Yucca Flats? The Room? Or something done by Uwe Boll?

@Oceanmachine27

4 жыл бұрын

It's Monster A-Go-Go, easily. It's a bad as a movie can possibly get and still be a movie. If you can find anything worse you've got a random heap of unassembled footage.

knowing was mint. nuff said.

review 2012 mark

ohh, theyve brought in a new brit

What’s a “horse face character?”

Jurassic Park is amazing.

Lol This is My Thing with the Movie It's a great Movie. I was watching it Tonight. He's a School Teacher Where Was he When 9/11 hit I mean he Should of Knew all that Stuff. I Mean Everybody Knew about 9/11 and probably Some of the other Events

that is the plot...

It was amazing movie

I was surprised at how much Colin hated this film

i love how that list ihas only Cage's worst movies.

@cindytartt4048

2 жыл бұрын

LOL. Because they’re reading from what another review quoted. Obviously Cage has made at least 2 passable films. But he is mostly terrible in everything. I keep waiting for a stunning performance which never comes- seems like 35 years, because it has been (or he is).

Hands up whoever searched for Rug Suckers From Mars on imdb!

Some are just too funny not to watch. Like The Wicker Man remake for instance.

love the knowing so much

Hi Mark, I enjoy your film critique, but there is a difference between saying ´´That´s the worst film I´ve ever seen´´ and ´´That´s the worst film ever made´´. It´s not for you to contradict the former.

This movie was too well written for a dumb down audience.

It is easy to laugh a burning moose

I was flicking through the channels recently and I saw this film on channel 4 and I just got really angry.

@0ooTheMAXXoo0

4 жыл бұрын

Roshan Abeysekera too good a movie, huh. Makes your own dreams of film making seem pointless? Only reason I could think of for anyone being angry about it.

@cindytartt4048

2 жыл бұрын

@@0ooTheMAXXoo0 no, i think it was a complaint about the time he can never get back from watching this train wreck….

wasn't Keanu Reeves playing an alien with no personality to begin with?

In the valley of violence

The film’s intriguing, stylish & well acted, however the script, direction, ending & lack of storytelling is unfocused. (50%) (2.5/5 stars) (mixed)

Alex Proyas has completly lost it

Seems every guy has a soft spot for Rose Bryne, and they’ll give her a pass despite how much they trash a film.

The sub plot with the blonde guys is appalling that destroys it.

The twist of Knowing, well, I would hardly even call it a twist, it's just the movie dumps out everything it did and starts anew with this new situation, which is the worst kind of ending. I don't think the acting is bad though, however John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness is the worst acted movie I've ever seen and I love it. Also Signs is bad, I would argue that people arguing otherwise is what ruined Shyamalan, it convinced him that people's standards weren't as high as he initially thought.

Colin Murray > Simon Mayo

It really is TERRIBLE.

And Mickey Rourke's face is contorted and stretched into a weird, animalistic appearance. Yet I don't see how that's relevant to The Wrestler.

the CGI Sucked!!

Nobody wants to watch a movie about Nick Cage surviving....

I don't watch many movies so I can easily say that Knowing is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life and its all because of that ending. I defy anyone to explain what the aliens/angels were trying to do with the numbers because it goes beyond not making sense and being random; what you think they are trying to do actively contradicts itself. You would think it was to get people to come to the pods at the end but they can kidnap the kids at any time. And they do.

@jasonwinney7694

2 жыл бұрын

in case this accounts still exists.... I see what you are saying BUT, it seems that perhaps since the plot was 50 years in the making that they needed to create a believer out of Nic Cage's character and therefore would need him to bring his child to the departure location where said child would choose whether or not to leave earth.

@endplanets

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonwinney7694 Almost a decade later and the scars remain as sore as ever. *Why bother using the code and getting Nic to believe the truth when they can just kidnap kids at will. Nic is powerless to stop them. Him agreeing to it at the end is pointless. *Why bother convincing Nic when the end of the world is obvious? Everyone knows Earth is doomed so the aliens can just pick up the kid then and there and Nic would be happy. And the aliens can predict the future so they know this would work. *Nic doesn't need to know the pick up point. The aliens can just kidnap / politely pick up the kid at his house. *Why even bother with the code? Why not just write a letter and send it out a month before? The answer “because that is a lame movie” isn’t a good reason. Its quite literally literally literally the most contrived nonsense I have ever seen outside of Deadpool fanfic. *Why wait till the last hour to pick up kids? Why not secretly kidnap millions over half a century? *Convince the child? That’s a cool theory. Still makes no sense as the kid doesn’t decipher the code AT ALL. And they can kidnap him easily. And if he protests he will stop once he realizes his kidnappers are saving him from a doomed world. And why use the code when a letter works just fine? *We see at the end that thousands of kids are getting picked up. So there are two options: A) Nic is literally the only person in the world who deciphered the code and it was all a waste of time as the aliens kidnap the kids from the parents who can't decipher the code. B) Everyone figured out the code, but somehow it didn't become the biggest story in history. 100% irrefutable proof of future sight, millions of lives in the balance, billions of dollars on the line. But for half a century this was kept a complete secret.

@jasonwinney7694

2 жыл бұрын

Well, if we are to believe that these were angels and what people wrote about in the Bible, would make sense that they must allow freewill to decide. Ultimately I get you, based on what was provided in the movie, it would seem the code was ultimately unnecessary, buuuut, since movies always allow you to unravel the story on your own, I don't see why 1000 codes couldn't have been sent out and that those that figured it out were able to be saved. Also, I know we demand thoughtful movies but virtual no movie makes 100% sense, so it's odd how emotionally invested in this you are lol

@endplanets

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonwinney7694 I was thinking it was angels too when I first watched it, but then realized that makes 0% sense. I didn't bring it up previously because it makes no sense but..... um.... But the movie actively insults you so.... sure. Why not be be angels? Why not angel aliens? The writers are the worst, most trite, most pretentious, and most contrived dudes ever that I bet they chuckled about how cool and deep they thought they were. Being angels brings up a different set of vapid and stupid nonsense. *If you can predict the future that accurately it (kinda) negates free will. *Why bother with free will if the aliens just kidnap the kids? *Why did the angels cause the apocalypse? At least the aliens just predicted the apocalypse. *Nic didn't freely give up his kids if angels cause the apocalypse. Its no different than a kidnapping at gunpoint. At least the aliens were trying to save humans as opposed to angels who save a few after causing mega genocide. *Matthew 24:36 says that no man, angel, or Jesus will know when the apocalypse will happen. So the writers didn't read the Bible. I want to say "you can't base a movie on the Bible if you contradict the Bible" but the writers can't write so why not. *Likewise: the Bible has clear signs of the Apocalypse (seven seals, trumpets, etc) but this 'Biblically inspired' work basically insults the Bible. *Its really hard to tell if they have never read the Bible, or just didn't care. Given the script you would think both, but from what I remember the answer is neither. They put a lot of effort and time into the script and they just are THAT horrible at their one job. *Its no joke that the quickly written "This Is The End" is deeper and more well planned out. Its OK for movies to have some plot holes. In Pacific Rim the protagonists randomly whips out a sword and quadruples their power. Why not use it before? It sucks, and combat is a big focus, but its not 100% of the plot and you can ignore it and pretend the writers forgot to put a line in. But "Knowing" is 100% about the code. Literally everything revolves around it. And none of it makes any sense. And it doesn't make sense on every single level. *So its not one plot hole, its dozens of utterly crippling plot holes and they all hit you in the span of like 2 seconds for extra impact. *And its made even worse because the movie is dang good. You had a sweet 8.5/10 flick and it plummets to 0/10 in 2 seconds. I put effort into following the plot and they screwed you over by giving an ending that makes no sense. *And its made worse (AGAIN) by the fact that you can tell the writers were so proud of themselves. They think they wrote something smart and had a great twist. In DBZ when there is a plot hole the story avoids it out of shame and convenience, but here.. no. Front and center. *If anyone figured out a code they would immediately tell the media to save countless lives with The Code. Everyone in the world would know in less than 24 hours thanks to the irrefutable proof. But nobody knew about it. So nobody deciphered the code. *Totally true that we get to unravel the mystery along with Nic. But who cares if the mystery is worse than insulting. Its like watching a CSI episode to find out it was a TRex from Mars. Its worse than nothing.

The ending was garbage to this film

@Koalalover70

Жыл бұрын

Idk, I thought it was perfectly executed

NO the CGI was not awesome.. It was soo fake.,

Anytime a professional film critic feels the need to attack the physical appearance of an actor I immediately dismiss the entire rest of their review. That's unprofessional, unfunny, cruel, and really just kind of a jerk thing to do.

@cindytartt4048

2 жыл бұрын

Oh goodness, the PRECIOUS. 🙄🙄

in this film nick cage plays a horse faced character... lol

LOL thank you.

WTF, IT INCLUDES ONE OF THE WORST ENDINGS I HAVE SEEN!

what a goon!!

Knowing had me interested at first, but by the end it was just lame.

There are hideous, weird, animal-looking actors out there. They don't get called up on it because their performances are far more interesting than their looks, or incorporate how weird it is. Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men. Part of how striking it was, was based on how freakish he looked. People like Nicholas Cage don't produce a performance interesting enough to distract from the fact they have a very straight nose. And they get paid alot for it.