"Knowing" an Interesting Tale With an Unsuspected Ending

"Knowing" starring Nicholas Cage made it to dvd this week and it is probably one of his best films ever.
Sadly, the biggest detractor from this film is its name and marketing. The film starts with a young girl named Lucinda (great name!) who is part of a class project to commemorate the opening of a new school. The class creates a time capsule and class members are encouraged to draw a picture representing what they think the world will be like in 50 years.
Lucinda spends her drawing time creating a page full of numbers which later proved to be a list of the dates and numbers of people who die in major disasters across the world over the next fifty years.
Calen (Nicholas Cage's character's son) receives Lucinda's creation at the opening of the time capsule and Cage's character Tom, an astrophysicist, becomes fascinated with the numbers and interprets their meaning. A series of small disasters confirm his interpretation of the document and lead to the discovery of Lucinda's descendants and the bigger plot.
The Biblical references in the movie were a bit unexpected, as the investigation team finds that Lucinda had become obsessed with a drawing of the prophet Ezekial receiving his prophecies from God. The movie also doubles as a thriller with Tom trying to protect his son from the disasters and the "whispering people" who appeared to both Caleb and Lucinda.
If you can get past Nicholas Cage's lack of ability to actually emote anything (even as simple as fatherly love), this is a very good movie. It pays attention to history and Biblical teachings without being preachy. The ending is unexpected and yet foreshadowed earlier in the movie.
"Knowing" is a great movie that could have been a much bigger hit if it had been marketed right.