Premonition

2007 "Reality is only a nightmare away"
5.9| 1h36m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 15 March 2007 Released
Producted By: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country: United States of America
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A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.

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Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.
TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
wes-connors Beautifully stunning housewife Sandra Bullock (as Linda) gets her cute preteen daughters off to school and busies herself with homey chores. She lives in a huge house that looks lived in; as we saw in the opening, it was a surprise wedding gift from Ms. Bullock's hard-working husband Julian McMahon (as Jim Hanson). He is usually the first one up, probably to get his eyebrows so very neatly plucked. One of Bullock's first chores is to put stickers on the glass doors leading out to her patio. With two young children, it's wise to remind the kids or a tipsy dinner guest that glass doors are hard if you walk or run into them...Bullock's ordinary day is about to be disrupted by a shocking tragedy. A sheriff arrives and informs her that husband McMahon was hit by a truck yesterday, and died on the spot. Naturally grief-stricken, Bullock begins the mourning process. She tells their daughters the terrible news, gets her mother to help and finally falls asleep, exhausted, on the couch. When she wakens, Bullock is back in her upstairs bedroom. She gets up and can't find mother Kate Nelligan (as Joanne). She does find husband McMahon, eyebrows trimmed, calming drinking his morning coffee. Most obviously, Bullock's dead husband is NOT DEAD...Bullock and the audience quickly deduce our story's heroine is experiencing her days out of order. That should keep you up at night...This is an intricately plotted story, by writer Bill Kelly. He does a fine job and director Mennan Yapo brings the story to life and keeps it engaging. At one point, they swipe the Bobby Ewing shower scene from the TV series "Dallas" (1986). Peter Stormare's pill-pushing Dr. Roth plays like "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Avoiding the viewer's tendency to question events, while sorting them out, is natural. Alas, we are not engaged enough to avoid seeing continuity errors, real and imagined. It does seem like Bullock "remembers" her past but "forgets" her future, considering her time continuum. However, that doesn't explain why a telephone answering machine is immune. This viewer found the ending events a bit disappointing, although it was an admittedly intriguing ride.****** Premonition (3/12/2007) Mennan Yapo ~ Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Kate Nelligan, Peter Stormare
eric262003 Sadly the execution for "Premonition" failed to live up to what could've been an enthralling roller-coaster ride filled with mind- boggling scenes where our conclusions to be drawn are more than likely to be welcomed. Have you ever felt like being stuck in time? Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has the unfortunate experience of being in such surroundings. She seems to weave back and forth from the past and future with little purpose and so much confusion. In many ways her story can resemble the likes of Kurt Vonnegut's "Billy Pilgrim" where one scene of her life swiftly changes back and forth to the point where she's at her wits end. Her roller-coaster ride begins on that tragic Thursday where Sheriff Reilly (Marc Macaulay) shows up at her door to tell her the news that her husband, Jim (Julian McMahon) was killed in car accident the day before he was scheduled for a business meeting.By the next morning, Linda wakes up discover Jim lying on the couch. And the day has transformed to a Monday as Linda dismisses her events as only just a vivid dream and goes back to sleep. By the next morning, Jim is deceased once again. It's Saturday and all her dearest close ones are preparing for her funeral while she's clearly not dressed for the occasion. Linda knows there's something fishy going on here and hopefully she could save her husband from his fate if she could find a way to manipulate the future through her premonitions. I'm usually fond of movies with with non-linear timelines like movie "Memento" among many other. Heck I even gave a similar film that Bullock starred in "The Lake House" a bit of praise that very few people did during its release in 2006. I bear no prejudices when it comes to suspending disbelief. In the duration of this 96 minute long roller-coaster of a film, Linda was able to change a few of the outcomes while unsuccessfully wasn't able to rectify all of them. All the while it seems to lack in any constituent pattern. Her week just goes around back and forth with no rhythm other just to weave through the plot structure. When it comes to performances, Sandra Bullock was really on her A- game. She's able to capture the painful ordeal of reliving her husband's demise while all performing it on daily basis in an enigmatic non-linear perspective. Therefore, she can't fully embody grief like most of us do when a loved one dies. She may look unhinged, but we can forgive her for her confusion she's facing. Peter Stormare is evenly impressive as her psychologist Dr. Norman Roth who's equally baffled as Linda is. Julian McMahon turns in a great performance as a husband who's relationship with Linda is on the rocks, but still has the time to be a devoted husband a caring father. A far cry from his Dr. Doom character. Sadly the acting can't get approved mainly because the script by Bill Kelly was never fully completed unlike his well polished script "Blast from the Past". Meanwhile German director Mennan Yapo takes it to an even greater low as his camera movements tend to move around in a way that becomes quite appalling which makes every scene uninspiring or uplifting. There are many methods to represent a character's confusion and disorientation without giving its audience migraines. Time travel has been a symbolical manifestation in the romantic fantasies, but writing about them is as complex as it comes. For us to get into these situations you have to make sense of it all, "Premonition" fails to accomplish that. Which is too bad because I really thought this movie had the potential to be really good. Sandra Bullock and company turned in terrific performances but the details to get the story seemed to fail in delivery which goes to show that a good movie isn't about just the acting. You need a coherent story so we can get more involved with the storytelling by the performers for a movie to sell. So while this movie survives on strong performances by the cast and the ideas have the audience in wonderment, it still fails to make any logical connections to keep us involved with the characters. In addition to that Yapo's camera work could use some greatly need improvement in the future. Plus there are some very disturbing footage with violent scenes and lots of foul language to keep advised. For some trivia this movie was originally supposed to be filmed in New Orleans, but because of Hurricane Katrina it was located elsewhere. I'm sorry I can't recommend this movie.
jimbo-53-186511 Husband and wife Jim Hanson (Julian McMahon) and Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) are a seemingly happy couple who have bought a new house and are ready to move into their new house. Whilst on his way to a business trip, Jim is killed in a car accident which wife Linda only learns of 24 hours later. Linda is clearly devastated about Jim's death and is surprised when she wakes up the next day to find that Jim is alive and well. Over the next few days, Linda struggles to understand the parallel universe that she has slipped into and gradually starts to lose control of her sanity.Premonition essentially tries to be a combination of Groundhog Day & Memento (arguably two of the finest time-twisting films around) and you can't help but feel that this was not only a brave move, but also a misguided move (if you're going to meld two really good time-twisting films then you really need to make sure that what you're offering is top drawer in order to really impress audiences). In all honesty, what you get here is a serviceable story which passes 90 minutes by fairly painlessly, but one that is a little too predictable and one that only sporadically pushes the right buttons....For the most part the narrative here is rather simple (it's essentially told back to front for the most part a la Memento) which for those who have seen Memento will clearly be the weakest part of the film. Where this film is a little bit stronger is in many of the scenes in between where essentially it becomes difficult to establish between things that happen in Linda's head and things that happen on the chronological timeline (logic would suggest that the scenes involving Linda and one other person are in her imagination and scenes with a group of people are reality or are based on her perceived view of reality).What hurts this film slightly is that it is quite easy to predict what is happening or what is going to happen; a large bottle of red wine shoved right in front of the camera, several shots of Lithium pills being shoved under the camera - it's ham-fisted script writing and direction like this that ultimately does the film more harm than good. At one stage, it's suggested that the doctor didn't prescribe Lithium pills to Linda and that if he did that Lithium would actually be good for her - this made me wonder if the pills he prescribed were actually a Placebo which wouldn't do anything at all or again maybe all this was in her imagination. The end of the film sees Jim get killed in a car accident with Linda bearing witness to his death - this perhaps explains her psychological mind-set (seeing one's spouse getting killed in such an horrific manner would undoubtedly cause untold amounts of pain and upset). Whilst this doesn't necessarily excuse Linda's behaviour following the event it does at least make it more understandable. As mentioned, a strong aspect of this film is in its ability to try to differentiate between reality and fantasy - I half-wondered if a lot of the tender moments between Linda and Jim were down to Linda wanting to try to change the past and in believing that he was alive she may have felt that she can right some of the wrongs. The performances in this film are OK but it's Sandra Bullock who is really deserving of praise; she kind of holds this semi-predictable and rather dull story together and gives a performance that is never less than compelling (it does help that she's easy on the eye and despite being in her early 40's at this point she could still have passed for being in her late 20's or early 30's).Premonition is not the best film ever made, it's not original and certainly doesn't have the most interesting of stories. However, it is one of those films that does just about enough to make it worth watching and to its credit it never feels boring. For me though it probably would have worked better by being its own beast rather than trying, and ultimately failing, in trying to emulate earlier and frankly much better films.
nvanvalleygirl Don't waste your time! In fact I think I may be overly generous with half a star. If, however, you are a film maker and are interested in how terrible a film can be with lousy cutting, flat performance, continuity errors, sloppy camera work and poor storyline - look no further this surely is the one! This story had great promise - at least I thought it did from the trailer, decent cast, a good hook to bring in audiences, yet it failed story wise. Not a lot can be done with it when the story just fell apart. The mystery and suspense of this movie was not generated in any shape or form from the story, but rather the from the confusion of what is going on.