Eight years after “The Fast and the Furious,” showed there was an audience for Car porn, comes this, the fourth installment into the series.  “Fast and Furious” reunites the stars of the first movie, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. In the original roles that made them big stars almost a decade ago.   This time around, a murder brings everyone back to L.A., which leads to ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) and Police Officer Brian O’Connor (Walker) having a shared enemy and needing to work together to bring him down.

The Good:

As one would expect, the car race scenes are phenomenal.  Director Justin Lin, who directed the third installment “Tokyo Drift” as well, knows how to set an action scene and carry an audience away on a ride.   Set in Los Angeles and nearby Mexico, the scenery also looks really nice on the big screen.

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Nicolas Cage has had quite a strange run of movies lately (Bangkok Dangerous, Next, Ghost Rider, The Wicker Man,…).  I would not be surprised to hear he just threw a dart at a bunch of scripts and whatever it hit, BAM, that’s his next project.  Well, this time that dart landed on a science-fiction movie from Director Alex Proyas, who has had success directing this genre with The Crow, Dark City, and I, Robot.
This story is about a page full of numbers that describes some of the world’s most tragic disasters and predicts a few more that are about to happen.   Nicolas Cage plays a down on his luck, struggling, single father (shocking, I know) who happens upon this sequence of numbers and tries to stop what seems like the inevitable.

Title: Knowing

The Good:

Compared to other recent science-fiction movies, I found this plot to be a lot more captivating.  It isn’t ever going to be confused for a true story, but if you give it a chance, there is not many times you will be rolling your eyes at preposterous happenings.  Also, most of the special effects for this low-budget movie were above-average.     They seemed very realistic to how situations of tragedy might go. Read more..