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Knowing (2009)
They should have flat-lined this project and started over
This movie is 4 plot lines and 8 plot devices, but none of them are well-connected. Its like a 6-hour movie was made and with 4 hours cut the remainder does not hold together. If you see the movie, ask yourself these questions: 1-who are the Strangers and why have they bothered to come here; 2-how were folks "chosen" to hear the Strangers, and why; 3-why did it matter at all that Caleb wore a hearing aid, and if it did not matter then why put it in the movie at all; 4-what if anything did the polished black stones mean to the story; 5-why did it matter that Nicholas Cage had parents and a sister and that he was estranged from his dad for unknown reasons; 6-how did Lucinda know about the all the future events, why did she have this foresight and why didn't it matter to the overall story; 7-why was Lucinda's daughter played as annoying and constantly hysterical, such that her fate was a relief to the viewer; and 8-etc. Put this on your Avoid list.
Cloverfield (2008)
very tedious and not worth the effort to watch it
Although the use of the hand-held camera is annoying, the real problem with it is that it becomes the focal point of the whole movie and so the drama is lost in the technique. The characters are uninteresting, if not annoying in their own right, and that creates two more problems. First, you don't care about them or what they are doing; and second, they fill up most of the movie time and the purposeful glimpses of the monsters and other special effects/action moments are very limited. I kept watching the clock timer on the DVD to see when the movie would end. Those who are hoping for a Godzilla in New York kind of movie will find only the hint of it in this effort.
Premonition (2005)
pitiful; hopefully only cost $50,000 to produce
a nuclear terrorist plot behind a back-from-the-dead-visions wrapper; terrible acting with one of those casts consisting of no one you have ever seen before other than the top 2 or 3 folks in the billing; no reality to the actions of the actors in the plot, with the FBI not bothering to follow up on any clues or taking seriously any information given them; the wife limited to a long series of "Oh, Jack.." lines; the kid existing for the sole purpose of being put in danger at just the right moment;a Grade C made-for-2am effort; unlike some bad movies, you realize from the very beginning that this will never start to become interesting; you have to wonder why they bothered with this.