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Premonition (2007)

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Reviews Counted:157

Fresh:12

Rotten:145

Average Rating:3.8/10

Consensus: Overdosing on flashbacks, and more portentous than profound, the overly obtuse Premonition weakly echoes such twisty classics as Memento, The Sixth Sense, and Groundhog Day.

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: , Death, Psychic Forces, Thriller, Theatrical Release

US Box Office: $47,852,604

Synopsis: Sandra Bullock (CRASH, MISS CONGENIALITY) stars as a housewife troubled by a tragic premonition in Mennan Yapo's thriller. Linda Hanson's life revolves around her beloved daughters (Shyann McClure... Sandra Bullock (CRASH, MISS CONGENIALITY) stars as a housewife troubled by a tragic premonition in Mennan Yapo's thriller. Linda Hanson's life revolves around her beloved daughters (Shyann McClure and Courtney Taylor Burness) and her husband, Jim (Julian McMahon, CHARMED). The familiar, picture-perfect terrain of her existence is abruptly shattered when she is informed that Jim has died in a gruesome car accident, and Linda spends the rest of the day in shock. When she awakes the next morning to find Jim calmly eating breakfast in the kitchen, however, she is even more disturbed. As the week progresses, Linda wakes up to find Jim alive again or dead again in an increasingly complex pattern that she struggles to make sense of. Linda realizes she's in the midst of a premonition and decides she must try to save Jim, but when she finds out he might have been cheating on her, her resolve is seriously tested. PREMONITION should appeal to fans of Christopher Nolan's MEMENTO and M. Night Shyamalan's THE SIXTH SENSE, as it too presents an intriguing puzzle for the audience to solve. Despite a few plot holes, the film provides an interesting take on the mutability of time. The notion of a mysterious unknown beneath the mundanity of everyday life is attractive, and the exploration of time as twistable--rather than linear--is fascinating. Nia Long (ALFIE) plays Linda's best friend, and Amber Valetta (HITCH) plays the other woman in Jim's life. [More]

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Amber Valletta

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Amber Valletta, Kate Nelligan, Peter Stormare, Shyann McClure, Courtney Taylor Burness, Marc Macaulay, Irene Ziegler, Jude Ciccolella

Director: Mennan Yapo

Director: Mennan Yapo
Screenwriter: Bill Kelly
Producer: Ashok Amritraj, Jon Jashni, Adam Shankman, Jennifer Gibgot, Sunil Perkash
Composer: Klaus Badelt
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Can you suffocate by constantly stifling yawns? If so, Premonition should be labeled a public health threat.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
03/15/07
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

May I suggest that it's time to declare a moratorium on movies about time?

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
03/15/07
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor

Premonition is so bad, there's even a scene mirroring the time when the old nighttime soap Dallas jumped the shark with Bobby Ewing in the shower!

Full Review Source: Horror.com | comment Comment
03/15/07
Staci Layne Wilson
Staci Layne Wilson
Horror.com

In Premonition, Sandra Bullock plays a woman going through a horrifying experience. She keeps waking up in this movie.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
03/15/07
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic

If you've seen the ads, you've seen the movie.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
03/15/07
Ann Hornaday
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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Considering that nothing adds up in the end, it is difficult to understand why a star of Sandra Bullock's caliber would agree to get involved.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
03/15/07
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

The script and direction are so humorless that the film becomes unintentionally funny, and, perhaps inevitably, the story falls apart once we know what's really going on.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
03/15/07
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Premonition is a dour Groundhog Day for desperate housewives.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
03/15/07
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday

As Premonition zigzags toward its solution it loses its head completely, packing a risible final reel with left-field religious disquisitions and heartfelt warnings against infidelity.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
03/15/07
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

I like that they use crows, because the stink of this carrion has flushed out a few guilty jackdaws.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
03/15/07
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

This seals it: Sandra Bullock can't tell time.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
03/15/07
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
Metromix.com

The movie does deserve credit for sticking to an ending no one at the studio could have wanted. We would, however, like to premonish that the conclusion is equally unlikely to satisfy the audience.

Full Review Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel | comment Comment
03/15/07
Phoebe Flowers
Phoebe Flowers
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

The scene in front of the funeral home where Bullock goes over the edge is inappropriately hilarious.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
03/15/07
Jason Ferguson
Jason Ferguson
Orlando Weekly

[A] hackneyed supernatural thriller that plays like a cross between a Lifetime network spinoff of Final Destination and the infamous Bobby-in-the-shower episode of Dallas.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
03/15/07
Scott Foundas
Scott Foundas
L.A. Weekly

With her tetchy screen persona, Sandra Bullock is well served by brainteasers like The Lake House and this passable thriller about a woman who seems to be bouncing between two alternate realities.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
03/15/07
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

Premonition is probably two-thirds of a good movie, and sometimes that's enough. But I have a, well, premonition it may not be, especially when it comes to those all-important opening-weekend grosses.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
03/15/07
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

This faceless frightfest begs the only one genuinely true psychological question at large: what prompted Bullock to be drawn to this mindless, moping mystical material?

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
03/15/07
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

Ageless beauty Sandra Bullock gives her typical automated performance in a superficial cross between the recent "Deja Vu" and Bullock's own excruciating movie "The Lake House."

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
03/15/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

...feels like it was concocted in some sort of hormonal haze, say maybe in the seventh month of a pregnancy.

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
03/15/07
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

Sandra Bullock morphs from the shopping mall rom-com queen to the sixth sense psycho but can't pull it off in this solo performance of woman's intuition gone bad.

Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | comment Comment
03/15/07
Ron Wilkinson
Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics
 
 
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