Title: Wish I'd Known
Product review: The movie begins reasonably enough. A primary school class prepares essays for a 50 year time capsule. One little girl is seen busily writing a stream of digits onto a page which is snatched from her before she can finish and goes into the capsule. Enter Nick Cage 50 years later whose son becomes the recipient of this seemingly incomprehensible missive. The rest of the movie is a discovery of what this mysterious writing means and how the principal characters deal with the implications.A great hook, to be sure. However, if you are looking for an uplifting movie, I'd recommend you'd pass. The special effects are disturbing, graphic, but not necessarily gory. There is a certain detachment throughout which mollifies some of the impact of the concluding, fantastic ending.Not quite as big a downer as Kubrick's AI, "Knowing" probably merits at most one viewing. Wish I'd known.
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