Alex Proyas should be an A-List director. He's got all the talent in the world. Yet, his films just seem to miss.
KNOWING is a good example of this. He certainly knows how to build tension. Yet, there's long passages of time in his movies that are...boring.
Making a film in which we witness the end of the world is a hard endeavor. Kind of depressing, no? Do we really want to go to a film to be depressed? This film makes it worse because the heroes really have nothing to do. Their fate is inevitable. They cannot change anything. It's always a dicey proposition to make a film where the lead is helpless. There's nothing to root for.
But again, Proyas knows how to tell a story visually. He just has to work on telling one emotionally now.
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