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Dir: Mennan Yapo. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Amber Valletta

 

Description: Sandra Bullock finds her husband dead one day and alive the next, and takes most of this half-arsed paranormal thriller to realise she's time-travelling.

Country: US. 2007. 96mins
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Silly explanation is patently illogical

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  15.03.07
 
Running out of logic: Sandra Bullock fears she's going mad in Premonition

Running out of logic: Sandra Bullock fears she's going mad in Premonition

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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.

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I have just got home from the cinema and thought that it was a pretty good film.
Admittedly I am online to try and find some possible explanations to some 'supposed errors' in the film but overall I found the story quite gripping. To me it mainly made sense and I managed to follow what was happening. I also didn't find the story line 'lame', I thought it made a substantial story. The thing that dissapointed me the most is that he did actually die in the end...but then again I would have thought the film sucked if she had actually have been able to change what happened.

- Sammi, England


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