Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 162
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 149
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.
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 32
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.
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Devastated upon receiving the news that her husband has been killed in a tragic car accident, a woman wakes up to find him still very much alive as she begins to slip into a confusing world where the past and the future become increasingly difficult to distinguish. Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) was an average housewife with a loving family, but when a policeman comes knocking on her door with news that her husband, Jim (Julian McMahon), was involved in a fatal car accident, Linda's world slowly
Mar 12, 2007 Wide
Jul 5, 2005
$47.9M
Sony
All Critics (163) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (153) | DVD (15)
I just returned from the immediate future, like two minutes from now, and I have a strong feeling I'm about to give this movie a big thumbs down.
So there you have it: go to church, keep your husband's gaze averted from stray blondes, try not to think about the future, and all shall be well.
Confusing, convoluted and yet gripping and emotional almost in spite of itself Premonition is the first movie Sandra Bullock has successfully 'carried' in years.
The script could have used some analysis itself. After proceeding for an hour in its fairly obvious supernatural path, suddenly the movie decides to get religious.
The sloppy, absent-minded Premonition is a step back in time and a giant leap backward for Sandra Bullock.
As Premonition slowly creeps toward a ridiculous faith-based climax or two, you may feel compelled to take a nap yourself. When you awake, it may all seem like a bad dream -- but why is your wallet missing $11? Scary.
Like a lot of mediocre movies it's not about much more than the immediate emotional response it's trying to generate. The filmmakers realize this and make an effort to shoe horn some themes in ... it just makes an already muddled movie even more muddled.
Thank God the local priest puts everything in perspective with a string of family-values clichés.
Sloppy filmmaking as a whole.
This feeble attempt at a mind-bending thriller has a vaguely interesting premise, but its potential is soon lost thanks to dreary execution.
Dark Bullock deja-vu thriller won't interest kids.
The film doesn't have any meaning. Not just because it's bad. Because at the very end, it's very obvious that there wasn't any point to anything.
One can still hear Ebeneezer Scrooge lament, "Why show me this if I am past all hope?"
Largely ridiculous but terribly serious.
Perhaps sensing the chaos, Bullock acts as if she's standing just outside herself, not quite vested in the role, her mind seemingly elsewhere.
If the director seems to show Sandra no mercy as she's instructed to run around breathlessly for two hours in circles through the past, present and future in no particular order, imagine the even greater toll this movie takes on the exasperated audience.
Didn't they know I don't want to see this movie again?
This film wants to be a twisty thriller but ends up something of a misogynistic mess which leaves its leading lady stranded.
I think the actress smiles a total of once in 100 minutes on screen. Granted, it's radiant when she does, but that's not enough to save the film.
At times intriguing, often confusing and ultimately frustrating, Premonition jumbles the past and present as Sandra Bullock's young wife and mother tries to change fate.
There's a nice collection of extras on the disc. It's just too bad the movie isn't good enough to make you really want to see them.
Could have been a darn snappy thriller, but the listless relationship at the story's core, plus ham-handed handling of the essential flashback/ flash forward scenes doom it.
If we're lucky, Premonition may not exist come tomorrow morning.
I guess I'm the only person who thought this was decent.
January 22, 2011Super Reviewer
Gross, weirdly staged, and annoyingly boring. Julian McMahon and Sandra Bullock are believable, but they can't save these film.
August 3, 2010Super Reviewer
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