Premonition Reviews

Premonition is a prime example on the fact that you shouldn't always listen to critics when deciding to watch a movie, this one was bashed by critics so hard, that it got 8% on Rotten Tomato and 5.7 on IMDb, and the score on Metacritic is terrifying.

This is my second viewing and it was as suspenseful as the first time, it's a well acted drama, with exceptional directing, beautiful looking movie, and fantastic thriller, now, the the concept of premonition is pretty known, it's the feeling that something terrible is going to happen, and the movie might not have an original idea, because most mystery movies relay on a non-linear timeline, but that doesn't make it boring, because if it was well executed (like this one), it's a good movie.

In the leading role is Sandra Bullock, a mother of two girls, and she wakes up one day to find a cop at her door step telling her that her husband just died in a car accident on the highway, near the sign (220 miles), a day passes, she sleeps and wake up to find her husband just sitting in the living room, another day, she wakes up and he's dead, so she decide to draw a pattern to see what's going on, she labels each day of the week with mementos, to find that there's a day missing, which is a day before the accident, when she attempt to save her husband.

The movie doesn't give you an answer as why is this happened, instead, it's give you similar unexplained stories that happened to people, and then the movie, give you the word "Faith", which is one of the main reasons why the movie was blasted, people think it's a "religious movie", or "have a religious tone" but it's not, the priest was just trying to say "that faith is just believing that somebody is looking after you, and that life is worth living no matter what", it's what do you expect to hear from a priest.

Overall, the movie is very suspenseful, very dramatic, Sandra Bullock is great, the cinematography is great, great mystery and it's defiantly deserve a look, and it's confuses me that critics bashed this movie for the concept, but praised 'source code' - 2011, which uses the same exact concept, just multiplied it by 10 times, to the point that it became boring to see the same scenes again and again, well, this movie doesn't use the same scenes, it's just a different look at the same events, and with much better execution.

Confused in the middle of the movie because I forgot which day was it. But it's quite touching when Mrs. Hanson tried to treasure the time with her husband and she did changed a bit of the future.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Sandra Bullock, I was quite eager to check it out. Indeed, I really think that Sandra Bullock is a really charming actress but, to be honest, most of the movies she's in are usually pretty much average and this movie is actually a very good example. I mean, at least, for once, she was starring in a thriller with a sort of time travelling concept instead of her usual romantic-comedies and we should praise her to do something really different than her usual stuff. On top of that, Bullock was allright, the mood and directing were actually pretty good but how was the end-product eventually? I’m afraid it was still rather average. Basically, it is an overly convoluted thriller which tries to be a major mind-f*ck but the story was just too weak and the twists at the end were almost unbearable and really annoying. To conclude, even though the whole thing actually had some potential, I thought it was just a rather weak thriller, I don’t think it is really worth a look and you should watch it only if you're a huge fan of Sandra Bullock fan.

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!

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.

...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.

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.