A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
If you want to know how inept the movie is...well, it's so inept that you may wish you were watching an M. Night Shyamalan version of the very same premise.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Mar 2009
rotten:
If Alex Proyas' Knowing were reasonably entertaining -- instead of just dour, pointless and tedious -- it would be a camp classic.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
23 Mar 2009
rotten:
Things started to fall off of the deep end very quickly.
– Ben Mankiewicz,
At the Movies,
23 Mar 2009
rotten:
There's nothing really special about this film, other than an interesting premise.
– Ben Lyons,
At the Movies,
23 Mar 2009
fresh:
Mixing Spielbergian child-like wonder, disaster movie spectacle and the cod-religious silliness of M Night Shyamalan's 'Signs'. The premise is compelling, but the execution is over-cooked.