Knowing
Everyone who has ever seen a film knows that Nic Cage can't do the everyman part. That's Tom Hanks Cage is the man everyman has hiding in him somewhere usually it takes a few bottles of buckfast yokes and some acid to bring him out but he's in there waiting practicing his high kicks. Here Cage is an MIT professor and recently berieved father of one 10 year old boy. The kid brings home a sheet of paper with numbers on it and all of a sudden Cage is gone to the moon in a handbag because it has the dates and death tolls of disasters hidden in it's scrawl of digits. Semms legit. Unfortunately Cage is bouncing off the walls and the director seems to be picthing the films tone at one notch above hysteria and so the result is utterly hysterical, occaisionally hilarious and utterly dissatisfying which is a pity because there is enough scope for insanity here to actually pull it off, think sixth sense meets close encounters meets final destination with Nic Cage, lose the grieving parent bit and add some lizards, Bang we have a movie. On the plus side it's rarely boring and always ridiculous. Not ridiculous enough to rank among Cages finest work and not geniunely good enough to be a reasonable movie this reminded me of the Happening in it's utter silliness. Drivel partially redemed by Cages hair.
Everyone who has ever seen a film knows that Nic Cage can't do the everyman part. That's Tom Hanks Cage is the man everyman has hiding in him somewhere usually it takes a few bottles of buckfast yokes and some acid to bring him out but he's in there waiting practicing his high kicks. Here Cage is an MIT professor and recently berieved father of one 10 year old boy. The kid brings home a sheet of paper with numbers on it and all of a sudden Cage is gone to the moon in a handbag because it has the dates and death tolls of disasters hidden in it's scrawl of digits. Semms legit. Unfortunately Cage is bouncing off the walls and the director seems to be picthing the films tone at one notch above hysteria and so the result is utterly hysterical, occaisionally hilarious and utterly dissatisfying which is a pity because there is enough scope for insanity here to actually pull it off, think sixth sense meets close encounters meets final destination with Nic Cage, lose the grieving parent bit and add some lizards, Bang we have a movie. On the plus side it's rarely boring and always ridiculous. Not ridiculous enough to rank among Cages finest work and not geniunely good enough to be a reasonable movie this reminded me of the Happening in it's utter silliness. Drivel partially redemed by Cages hair.
