The end of the world is coming and John Koestler (Nicholas Cage) knows when it’s going to happen he just doesn’t know what to do about it.

50 years ago an elementary school class buried a time capsule filled with pictures of what they thought the world would look like in 2009. Most of the children drew pictures of spaceships and flying cars, however one little girl who has a seemingly Nostradamus-like ability wrote a sequence of numbers.

When the time capsule was dug up Koestler and his son became privy to the information written by the little girl and become obsessed with the numbers and their sequences.

It isn’t long before Koestler cracks the code and finds that the numbers coincide with the dates, number of deaths, and geographic location of all the major tragedies in the world from 1959 up until a date believed to be the end of life as we know it.

John’s obsession turns into his futile attempts at stopping future disasters and finding a way to prevent the end of the world. As he researches the life of the young elementary school girl he begins a relationship with her daughter and granddaughter.

Like John’s son the granddaughter can hear the whispers of a group of secretive entities asking them to join them. Without spoiling anything the movie takes a handful of twists and turns before culminating in a sensory overdrive experience.

For a modern day Sci-Fi flick, this one doesn’t disappoint. Nicholas Cage is boring and monotone as always and his character is a mirror image to the one he plays in the National Treasure movies and well everything else he has ever been in, but as a geeky astronomy professor in this one it is fitting.

Director and writer Alex Proyas has a clear religious agenda he is pushing in this one but it was an interesting spin on the end of the world stories that have been made hundreds of times before.

In the end Knowing is a well constructed film, with a familiar yet unfamiliar plot line proving to create one of the better science fiction films in recent memory. Overall 3 stars out of 4