We thought that Sandra Bullock had begun to choose her films more wisely after the intriguing The Lake House. But this unconvincing psychological thriller suggests she still can't detect a good screenplay from a poor one.

It starts promisingly. She is a married woman with two children whose fond husband (Julian McMahon) has just bought a new house.

She's overjoyed, but when a police officer arrives at the door a few days later to tell her that hubby has been killed in a car accident, her whole world collapses.

The next day, however, he's there at the breakfast table. Was she dreaming about the accident? No, because the day after that he's apparently dead again and soon it is time for the funeral.

But he appears again, and again. Is she going mad. And, if not, is it all a premonition and can she prevent the accident happening?

You may have already guessed that there's a secret to be divulged which eventually explains all.

Unfortunately, it's patently illogical and Mennan Yapo, the last of no less than 35 directors given the script to look at, can't do a lot about it.

It's nice to see Kate Nelligan again as our distraught housewife's mother, and Bullock herself has moments when she makes you almost believe the plot.

But it gets less convincing by the minute and ends with a shot that's enough to make a cat laugh.

I've a premonition that Premonition will suffer a fate worse than death at the box-office.

It may also be accorded the title of one of the silliest films of the year.