Premonition (2007)

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• Matt G

  
  I guess I'm the only person who thought this was decent.

• Spencer S

  
  Gross, weirdly staged, and annoyingly boring. Julian McMahon and Sandra Bullock are believable, but they can't save these film.

• Richard C

  
  C

• Sarah G

  
  One of the most dull and lifeless films that I think I've ever seen. Contains character motives which seem uncessary and often without explaination. The plot isn't really explained well, which makes the characters less interesting to the audience. One to avoid!

• KJ P

  
  It does get extremely interesting about halfway through, but it then just plummets to the ground from bordom and confusion.

• Anthony L

  
  I love Sandra Bullock, I just can't think of one good film she's been in! This has to be one of the worst though! In order to be a good thriller a film needs three things; Intrigue, suspense and unpredictability. Premonition is boring, ridiculous and predictable. If you like… More
  I love Sandra Bullock, I just can't think of one good film she's been in! This has to be one of the worst though! In order to be a good thriller a film needs three things; Intrigue, suspense and unpredictability. Premonition is boring, ridiculous and predictable. If you like shouting at the TV then by all means watch this 'Thriller' but for me it wasn't so much 'How is it going to end' but more like 'When is it going to end'. Sorry Mrs Bullock, I love you but I fear for your career :o(

• Emily A

  
  I didn't like this movie until I figured out what was happening. The trailers and even the film's titles misrepresent what this film is about: Sandra Bullock isn't psychic or anything, and strictly speaking, what happened wasn't a "premonition".… More
  I didn't like this movie until I figured out what was happening. The trailers and even the film's titles misrepresent what this film is about: Sandra Bullock isn't psychic or anything, and strictly speaking, what happened wasn't a "premonition". She's just living the days of the week her husband dies out fo order. It's a really novel way of telling the story, and it kind of adds new dimensions to the events that transpire. Her initial shock at her husband's death is mingled by her disorientation in response to how she's experiencing time and would seem to the people surrounding her to be misplaced. It's simply occuring on the wrong day. This really isn't one of my favorite thrillers, but I quite enjoyed it. I just think that the tone could have used a little more pizzazz. There is something about this film's visual style (or pace or something) that makes it seem lacklustre and tiresome. Which is really such a shame because there's a lot you could do with a story with this unique chronology.

• Megan S

  
  Meh, okay. Sandra Bullock was amazing and I love her. I didn't have a big issue with the so-called "plot holes." But the ending? Horrible! The gag reel was great.

• Lady D

  
  The remake of a Japanese film of the same name becomes an enjoyable Hollywood psychological Thriller. Quite a bizarre storyline, turn your head for a moment and it?s easy to lose what?s happening.

• Bobby H

  
  Another good mystery suspense movie that revolves around how every decision in your life will effect your future. Its entertaining, keeps you glued to the screen, and has an amazing outcome. The whole movie is perfect and Sandra Bullock does a great job as usual.

• Cassandra M

  
  t even Sandra Bullock saved it

• Bruce B

  
  excellent

• James A

  
  Thanks go to Senor Valencia for making me watch this turd thats called a movie.

• Red L

  
  Its a movie. Just sit and enjoy it, and don't try to figure it out. A premonition would make sense, but for Sandra Bullock to live this week out-of-order is a bit much.

• Al S

  
  I dont belive i wasted money on renting this

• Dean M

  
  A fine supernatural thriller in the vein of <i>The Butterfly Effect</i> and <i>The Number 23</i>. This is a foreboding tale of death and disorientation, it keeps me guessing right up until it's breaktaking finale!

• Steve B

  
  This was just not good. At all.

• Tim S

  
  My friend Eric worked on this!

• Craig S

  
  <b><u>Directed by:</u> Mennan Yapo.</b> <b><u>Starring:</u> Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon.</b> I never had any intention to see this, after all the bad reviews, I was thinking of waiting for a cheap DVD to rent, but seeing as I was on… More
  <b><u>Directed by:</u> Mennan Yapo.</b> <b><u>Starring:</u> Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon.</b> I never had any intention to see this, after all the bad reviews, I was thinking of waiting for a cheap DVD to rent, but seeing as I was on a plane at the time and the film was a selection, I gave it a go, although it is not what I had hoped for at all, somehow, I was slightly surprised. With a tough premise such as this, you would expect something new to be introduced, something unique, refreshing and original for us to love.....this film is not any of those, it borrows heavily from many other great films and Mennan Yapo, in his directional debut, is lacking vision, but saying that, it turns out to be a nicely plotted, but very simple and unoriginal film. For the first 20 minutes, it is very unfocused, we are rushed through what can only be called a pathetic excuse for character development with scenes strung together unevenly, but I waited it out and it resolved itself. I was a little annoyed that it had this 'Butterfly Effect' feel to it all (especially in what sounds like a complete ripoff from that films score), but we are kept guessing in parts and are slowly introduced to characters a little later in the film and at the end of it all, it all fits together and achieves what it wanted to do, but you are left with that feeling of being deceived by how simple it all was. At the end of all that, I hated the film, but I was also quite surprised at how it wasn't a mess of a film. It is simple, unoriginal and lacking vision, but its plotted well with some character focus later in the film. Maybe see it on DVD when it is cheap....or on a plane like I did.

• Nate Z

  
  [CENTER][img]http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1002/premonitionpy4.jpg[/img][/CENTER] [COLOR=DarkRed][FONT=Arial]Linda (Sandra Bullock) is having a unique martial crisis. Her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has died in a horrific car accident and she must now raise their two… More
  [CENTER][img]http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1002/premonitionpy4.jpg[/img][/CENTER] [COLOR=DarkRed][FONT=Arial]Linda (Sandra Bullock) is having a unique martial crisis. Her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has died in a horrific car accident and she must now raise their two daughters by her lonesome. Or so she thinks, because she wakes up the next night and Jim is alive and well and enjoying a hot cup of java. Linda is perplexed and finds herself living the days of this week out of sequence. One day Jim is alive and the next day he isn't. She plots to use her knowledge to save her husband if it's even possible to defy fate. [I]Premonition[/I] is in hopeless want to be a modern-day version of Kurt Vonnegut's [I]Slaughterhouse Five[/I] with the added sprinkle of a Lifetime movie. Linda is, like in Vonnegut's classic sci-fi novel, unstuck in her time, however, the time has been pared down significantly to a mere week. Thankfully the movie has enough sense not to implicitly try to make sense of why this is happening to her, though she does visit a priest who has conveniently studied this sort of crazy thing (short answer: God is testing your faith). The problem with limiting the timeline to just seven days is that when Linda makes her quantum leaps the audience is left scrambling to figure out when she is. This works in placing the audience alongside Linda in confusion, but it gives no sense of overview or clarity and the events aren't significant enough to warrant being memorable enough to connect cause and effect. The narrative structure is purposely jumbled but it's also missing suspense if we never know what's going on. Hey, I'm not even asking for much either, just some titles indicating the days would be helpful. The people that populate this film behave in completely contrite ways because the half-baked story demands it of them. When Linda finds her daughter's face covered in scratches for the first time, she asks what happened to her. Instead of actually answering, the child remains silent because apparently that would spoil the dramatic surprise of her running into a glass door. Wow, that was worth it, and it must have been something so traumatic that neither of Linda's daughters could casually mention it. A child would not behave this way. The only way this would make sense is if the contriteness got kicked up a notch and the little girl got a sliding door-bound case of laryngitis. Like romantic comedies, [I]Premonition[/I] is a movie that needs to survive due to no one ever having a rationale conversation explaining all that they know to dispel misconceptions. This whole dumb sliding door incident is made even worse when Linda's mother wants to have the children removed from their mother's custody because of those scratches. Huh? Would she not know too that it was an accident? And just one more reason to hate this plot point: when Linda tells her daughters that their daddy is dead the little girl does not have scratches, however, in the timeline, she ran into the door the day before. The day after the death, and two days after she broke the door, the glass is replaced because I suppose that took priority over mourning. The discontinuity is terrible. Also, when Linda gets the tiniest whiff that her (sometimes dearly departed) husband was even contemplating infidelity, she performs a full 180 on the spot and coldly considers letting him die as punishment. The speed of her abrupt about-face is a cheap roadblock to squeeze more tension out of this dumb story. I won't even mention how lazy it is to have a priest who's an expert on "unstuck time" living nearby. The plot may be maddening, but I think [I]Premonition[/I] was meant to be a comedy because it's sure as hell not an effective thriller. The movie's feeble attempts at attaching scares to its central puzzle are astounding bad. This is the type of film that not only thinks a dead crow is spooky but that the mystery of what happened to the dead crow is integral to audience satisfaction. It's hard to believe that [I]Premonition[/I] preoccupies so much time with the mini timeline of one dead bird. There are cheap jump scares in abundance but no lasting tension of sense of unease because the filmmakers have left the audience in the dark. There is one horrendous moment where the funeral pallbearers drop the casket and Jim's head snaps and rolls out. You know they're not getting any repeat business. [I]Premonition[/I] has an ending that just lays there in utter defiance of taste, causing the audience to upturn their nose in disbelief as if they had just discovered someone defecating in a store aisle. And that's really the closest analogy to what the ending to this moving is like -- utter crap. The ending is terrible and grasps for some kind of deeper [I]Twilight Zone[/I] level of irony, but instead what comes across is a clumsy, irritating, and plain idiotic excuse at futility. It really calls into question whether or not the movie had any point. [I] Premonition[/I] was beyond redemption but its stinker of an ending and Linda's voice over summation will cause you to roll your eyes at incredible speeds. Bullock is in new territory with Premonition, though she dabbled with time travel in last year's [I]The Lake House[/I]. She's in way over her head and cannot effectively convey any of Linda's increasingly ragged emotions. I laughed out loud several times as Bullock tried to express her growing apprehension, and her take on the line, "Because we're running out of time," had me in stitches. Her performance isn't particularly embarrassing but more of an exasperating reaction to all the mess surrounding her. Bullock should probably stick to her romantic comedy wheelhouse before her career freefalls even faster. Personally, if I was unstuck through time and needed some help figuring out important events, I would leave a lot of Post-It notes for myself filling me in on what I know. That would make sense; this movie doesn't in any capacity. Bullock, writer Bill Kelly, and director Mennan Yapo need to pray that they can wake up the day before they ever started to make [I]Premonition[/I] and then they can spare us all. Then again, I suppose we can only fight fate one sliding door at a time. Nate's Grade: D+[/FONT][/COLOR]

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