Title: Determinism wins; all human effort is irrelevant
Product review: "Knowing" is a movie that starts out telling one sort of story, and ends with a different type of story. Without giving away any significant details, at the end of this you'll have realized that you spent two hours watching a story about striving to fight destiny -- and in the end, it's all futile; no humans can change anything. (Only creepy/helpful aliens can do that, and only for rare, special humans.)There are also quite a lot of annoying goofs in the movie, many of them having to do with being filmed in Australia but supposedly set in the northeastern USA (Massachusetts and New York).I'd strongly caution against watching "Knowing" unless you can handle an ending which has nothing to do with any actions taken by any of the characters. I found that quite unsatisfying.
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