10 Movies Which Insult Your Intelligence

Famously adored by renowned film critic Roger Ebert and hated by pretty much everyone else, 2009's Knowing is a sci-fi thriller starring Nicolas Cage as an astrophysicist whose son discovers a strange document at school. 

The paper, which contains a series of seemingly random numbers scrawled by a former student 50 years ago, is discovered to be able to predict certain tragedies. Cage’s character decodes a warning that a mass extinction event is on the way, which leads him to try and get his family to safety.

Whilst there may have been a hint of something in this idea, it got way too far-fetched for its own good. 

It was revealed that the numbers were sent by some unidentified alien beings as a way of determining who would be spared from Earth’s destruction. At the end of the film, it is revealed that only children who have heard their whispers can leave the planet. So… why bother with the numbers then? Just stick with the whispers. 

Also, the “extinction event” - a massive solar flare - is scientifically implausible, which completely undermines the film’s sense of jeopardy.

At least Roger enjoyed himself.