Knowing (4 Stars)

Alex Proyas has only directed a handful of films over the last 20 years, but they are all outstanding. Quality not quantity. "Dark City" and "The Crow" are two of the best films ever made. "Knowing" comes close to the same levels, despite the plot being difficult to logically follow.

In October 1959 the children of a junior school are asked to draw pictures of what they think the future will be like. The pictures are put in envelopes and sealed in a metal container and buried to be opened 50 years later. On this date they are handed out to the new generation of schoolchildren at random. The envelope given to Caleb Koestler doesn't contain a picture, it contains a sheet full of seemingly random numbers. Caleb passes it to his father, an astrophysics professor at M.I.T., who realises that the numbers are the dates and locations of all of the major disasters of the last 50 years. The last three disasters are still in the future, and the numbers predict the world will end on October 19th 2009. Can the future be changed? Watch the film to find out.