Color me dense, but I actually didn’t know much about the new Nic Cage vehicle, Knowing until I watched an extended scene from the movie at yesterday’s Comic Con, but what I did see gave me chills. Sadly, I can’t show you the clip, which has a jet liner crashing down from the sky and colliding into a traffic jam, but I can tell you that the movie really does have some pretty startling images. My girlfriend, who was sitting next to me during the clip, actually had her hand over her mouth the entire time and was greatly disturbed. She even went on to call the scene, “Horrific,” after it was over, which by my accounts means the clip was a success.
The movie is directed by Alex Proyas, probably most known for doing I, Robot and Dark City, and Knowing looks to be just as dark as those two films. Before the clip was rolled, Proyas, who couldn’t be there because he was filming something or other, introduced the scene from a pre-recorded tape and said that the footage was still rough, even though it looked pretty damn complete to me. After that clip, there was another scene of a subway derailing and skidding onto a train platform, killing everybody in its path. Following the scene, people in the audience started cheering, though I don’t really know why somebody would cheer about seeing a train kill hundreds of people. What can you say, it’s Comic Con.
Here’s hoping the rest of the movie can be as shocking as those two scenes, or it might just turn out being a better looking version of Final Destination.
