Can you suffocate by constantly stifling yawns? If so, Premonition should be labeled a public health threat.
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
Reviews for Premonition
May I suggest that it's time to declare a moratorium on movies about time?
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!
In Premonition, Sandra Bullock plays a woman going through a horrifying experience. She keeps waking up in this movie.
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.
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.
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.
I like that they use crows, because the stink of this carrion has flushed out a few guilty jackdaws.
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.
The scene in front of the funeral home where Bullock goes over the edge is inappropriately hilarious.
[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.
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.
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.
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?
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."
...feels like it was concocted in some sort of hormonal haze, say maybe in the seventh month of a pregnancy.
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.
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