My Little Half-a-Weekend

Well, no one feel sorry for me, but I worked Saturday..(actually I do every other Saturday, which totally chaps my little brown hide)..so this weekend is what I like to cleverly refer to as my “Half-a-Weekend”.

Anyhow, I’ve been granted a little room to breathe by the corporate slavers by way of their generous and merciful decision to make our Saturday hours a day shift instead of a night one…so, on the bright side of still having to work lies getting off early enough to see a movie….which leads me to the review of Knowing, starring Nicholas Cage.

So, besides the fact that the old people I sat next to wouldn’t shut the hell up the whole effing film, I was able to see Alex Proyas try his best at a craft he is rather mediocre at to say the least., well, besides I, Robot and Dark City, which were freaking awesome in my humble opinion. I gotta give the guy a few stars for trying though, however, the film was not interesting enough to tear my attention away from the old couple discussing why their latest stool samples was not quite right in the dr’s opinion, or why their kids never visit…(hmmm, let me take a wild guess on that one! Grr!)

Anyhow, the story follows a depressed MIT Scientist and his son, who, followig the loss of their wife and mother, are having a hard time dealing with life in general, understandably. The film becomes a bit more interesting when the kid recieves a letter from a time capsule buried 50 years before that is covered in numbers… the sequence of numbers turns out to be dates, locations, and body counts of major disasters in history and the future. The final number being armageddon itself. The rest of the film follows them trying to stop said events while also being chased by myserious dudes in black jackets who look like the tried out for Abba and didn’t quite make it.

The film was mediocre at best, even to the end, and though I only spent 2.00 to see it, I still wanted it back. This is definitely a wait-for-cable movie…not pay-er view…cable.

However, the idea was sound, and interesting, just poorly executed in my opinion, as well as a very slow story indeed. Not to ruin the end for you, but the last 10 minutes were mildly inpressive. And those with religious views may like the understones of the director trying to meld religion in with sci-fi. (Can’t blame them fro trying, can we? )

Anyhow, sorry about the loss of review for Up, i planned to go, but funds were a bit short. I’m still dying to see it though.. if for no other reason than seeing that talking dog and his SQUIRREL!…..problem.

*photo from flameflicker