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Premonition review
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Underrated Suspense.

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.

7/10
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9 years ago on 24 September 2014 05:19

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