Knowing (2009)

Nicolas Cage becomes obsessed with a cryptic, numeric letter that his son receives at school in a time capsule from 50 years ago. MIT professor Cage believes the numbers indicate the details of major disasters for the last 50 years, and the near future. Cage then becomes obsessed with understanding the remaining figures and what to do about it if he is correct. And what to do with the strange men that keep appearing to his son.

Director Alex Proyas (Crow, Dark City, I Robot) would have done better to cut the 2 hour running time, removed Cage’s depression over his dead wife and of his estrangement with his father, and come up with an ending that was less Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Knowing can’t be taken seriously despite its ominous tone.