Knowing

This is a movie with multiple personality disorder. For the first hour, it is the puzzling mystery that I expected, all perfectly sane and normal, even while slightly worrisome. The next half hour upped the creep factor until it nearly became a horror movie, mainly based on sneaking around in the old rickety abandoned trailer where the crazy lady was found dead years ago, and not made any more comforting by the weird albino trench-coat-wearing guys stalking the children. I was officially creeped out and more than once found myself turning around to make sure I was still alone.

Then came the last half hour, with a logic-defying leap that reminded me of the episode of Friends where Joey is acting in a play as a guy named Victor who has been perfectly ordinary until the spaceship comes down to take him to Blargon 7. All of a sudden the movie has lost its grip on reality and is just plain surreal, with Adam and Eve--I mean, Caleb and Abby--running through a field of alien wheat towards what can only be the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, unless maybe it was the Na'vi Tree of Souls . . . yeah, it's weird. But definitely not boring.