Knowing

**1/2 – An intriguing premise and a performance by Nicholas Cage that astonishingly didn’t make me want to clobber him are buried beneath a pretty crummy script and an ending that doesn’t seem particularly well thought out. This film looks pretty nice, and is well directed by Alex “Dark City” Proyas, but there are enough deficiencies present in this disaster/mystery/sci-fi/thriller to make watching it a bit of a chore.