Reviews of Premonition

Can you see but can't you.

Posted : 6 months, 2 weeks ago on 29 March 2008 05:19 (A review of Premonition)

Saturday Nights always brings a host of new films onto Sky Movies. I usually put one of my weekend days aside to make time to watch these films.

Premonition is a borderline fantasy/sci-fi film with a mysterious and engaging plot. Although it is literally explained throughout the days what is going on. I found it quite exciting to take each day as they came about.

The beef of story is set over 7 days in a crucial week for Sandra Bullock's character. However, they aren't in order! Mindfuck!

Linda (SB) is the only person aware of this causing most of the friction and revelations with the other characters. It is the first film in a while that has actually got me watching as opposed to looking at the screen.

Julian McMahon has breached Hollywood. Sky is the limit for him!

It was a toss up between marking this film as a 7 or not because by doing so I am recommending it to anyone engaging my profile. I enjoyed it enough to review on my busy night in!

Sort it out bruv!

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Premonition review

Posted : 10 months ago on 15 December 2007 08:31 (A review of Premonition)

This film could have been much better. There were no cool plot twists, or any suspense moments. The plot was just very predictable. It is not horrible. I enjoyed a lot of it. But it was just very repetitive.

that is why I give this film, a "6", out of 10.

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the only redeeming value...

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 27 July 2007 01:47 (A review of Premonition)

...is in the gag reel in the DVD extras. If I had seen this in the theater, I would've been more than irritated.

It's slow, and almost seems like a combination of "Groundhog Day" and "The Lake House." Throw in a little "Memento" and you get the idea. The problem is that it's not nearly as good as any of the three. Disappointing, but checked off in my list of movies I don't need to see again.

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enjoyable but that is it

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 16 July 2007 05:38 (A review of Premonition)

Housewife Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) is married to Jim (Julian McMahon), has 2 daughters (Shyann McClure and Courtney Taylor Burness), and her best friend Annie (Nia Long). Linda, one day, wakes up and gets the news that Jim is dead. She wakes up the next morning to find him alive.
She decides to investigate what is happening, to try and prevent her husband's death.

Not exactly fast-paced, and certainly not the greatest thriller/suspense movie, this isn't Bullock's best either! It is however refreshing to see McMahon in a movie rather than his usual Nip/Tuck series. The kids are not well cast - neither of them look like Sandra or Julian.

The ending IS a disappointment. Since this is a thriller/suspense, you would think the scriptwriter would have come up with some not-obvious ending. However, he did. So halfway through the movie, what you expect to happen does happen, and that is utterly annoying.
And that very last scene? How stupid could that be. Useless. One of the worst useless scenes I've seen - sooo American.

Nothing original, or new in this movie.

Still entertaining, despite its plot holes. But I wouldn't watch it again.


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Premonition review

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago on 4 July 2007 05:55 (A review of Premonition)

**Warning: Mild Spoilers Ahead**

The movie is slow... there's no action, there's no major drama; and it's really just one of those movies that seeks to have this big spiritual ending. I admit that I watched the whole thing, wondering what was going on and what the answer to the big puzzle would be... only to be disappointed. I just found it rather so simplistic and far too faith-based for my tastes. After sitting through all that, I was really hoping it would be something supernatural or alien, or a haunted house or something. It was just sort of "blah" to find out it was all about some sort of "appreciate what you've got while you've got it" moral.

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