Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Yash Wade
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
Taha Avalos
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
paulclaassen
It's ok, but feels a bit déjà vu at times. The story has been done before - this one is just a bit more confusing and the premonition comes true anyway.Sandra Bullock should stick to comedy.
sexwizardmoustache
This movie started out with much promise. I love supernatural thrillers based on esoteric themes like time travel, fate, the foretelling of the future, changing the course of the future etc, so this was right up my alley. It is actually rare for a plot synopsis to intrigue me this much, so I was very excited to watch this movie. The first 30 minutes hooked me in. I was at the edge of my seat in suspense, wondering how the plot would play out. A woman wakes up to find out her husband has been killed in a car accident, spends the day overwhelmed with grief, and then wakes up the following morning to find her husband is alive. This is a superb start to a movie. They could have taken it in so many different directions from here. But instead, the movie just gets worse with each passing minute.As others have mentioned, if the take home message of the movie is that fate is predetermined and we are powerless to change it, why did Bullock have the premonitions in the first place? Also, what was the point of the premonitions when Bullock made no attempt to change the course of events (including preventing her daughter from getting permanently disfigured) and of course her husband's death until the end when it was too late? You would think she would at least set an alarm for god's sake so she wakes up early enough to warn her husband before he leaves for work. She did not bother setting an alarm once.On that note, she never actually told her husband of her premonitions, which was really frustrating. He could have avoided taking that route (220) for example. All she said was that she had a dream he had died. Well a dream is a bit different to waking up to different realities every day where her husband is alive one day and dead the next, and surely this is important information she should have disclosed to her husband. I thought it was rather distasteful that when she found out he hadn't actually had an affair yet but was PLANNING to, she decided she wanted to just let him die! How horrendous! You would think a normal person would confront their spouse about it and ask them not to cheat on them, instead of letting them die as some kind of punishment. As for the other characters, Bullock's mother was horrible. Committing your own daughter after she loses her husband, and separating your grandchildren from their mother after they have just lost their father is unconscionable. Bullock's so called best friend didn't help either, as she is the one who carried her children away as she was restrained and taken to a mental asylum. You would think that your own mother and best friend, two people who are supposed to know you rather well would be a bit more understanding of someone who has lost their spouse and is grieving, and perhaps acting a bit "out of sorts", and also understanding of that fact that children have accidents and not immediately assume that a mother is responsible for cutting up her own daughter's face!It's never explained why the husband goes in the morning of his car accident to triple his life insurance either. How does he know? Is he having premonitions too? As for the ending, it is the worst. It defeats the entire purpose of the movie because the husband dies anyway, even when Bullock finally tries to save him at the last possible moment. Again, setting an alarm and warning him the morning of the accident would have been helpful. But of course that's too easy. Instead she tells him to turn around in a way that causes his car to stall in the middle of a highway. And then when a truck is coming up behind him, instead of getting out of the car and running, he keeps trying to start his car. Ridiculous. After his tragic death which apparently could have been avoided had Bullock refrained from intervening (Is this supposed to be ironic?) Bullock wakes up months later pregnant with a third child that she will now have to raise on her own. Overall, a complete disappointment of a movie with an utterly unsatisfying conclusion.
Python Hyena
Premonition (2007): Dir: Mennan Yapo / Cast: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahan, Nia Long, Kate Nelligan, Courtney Taylor Burness: The title apparently means "previous warning" and that's what viewers need before seeing this ridiculous film. Sandra Bullock is given the news that her husband died in an auto accident. Starts out well before repetitious circumstances where every time she awakens her husband is either alive or dead. Director Mennan Yapo is backed with eerie production and a decent performance from his leading lady. Bullock pulls all the stops as a confused woman struggling to make sense of the dilemma. She goes from regular house wife to trying to figure out the events that have recently transpired. Either way she will wake up to a depression and dealing with her two daughters with regards to the loss of their father, or she will enter the shower where he cleanses himself much to her shock. She goes to a doctor in hopes that he will tell her that she isn't nuts. Julian McMahan is total cardboard as her cheating husband. He is more or less observed through any conduct with Bullock, and how his fate came to be is more a kick in the ass than a surprise. Nia Long is wasted as her best friend. Kate Nelligan is lifeless as her mother who shows up when the plot conveniently needs a supportive word. The result is a laughable thriller at best. Score: 4 ½ / 10
atlasmb
In "Premonition", a woman finds herself in a real-life nightmare--her life becomes a non-linear experience, a puzzle that she must sort out. And she must do it by herself, because if you start talking about premonitions, you sound like a crazy person.As viewers, we get to work on the same temporal puzzle that Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) is trying to unravel. At first, it seems that the time line will be difficult to follow, but the script does a good job of helping the viewer keep things straight.The film has its twists and turns, eventually morphing into an ethical puzzle, which deserved more attention. But that is a minor issue.Early in the story, Linda is told that her husband died in an accident. Bullock's portrayal of grief is one of the best I have seen. And it takes the viewer into her world immediately.There is a lot of moralizing built into the story, but it does not detract much. However, the film contains a lot of religious symbolism--to the point that I found it distracting. By the time we get to the end of the film, the story has the feeling of a roller-coaster--in a good way. Some reviewers hate the ending. There is no satisfying everyone on this issue. I can't say it ended strongly, but it was not a cop-out. The acting is good, including that of the children. The story is engaging. I have to deduct a little for the weak ending and the religious undertones that unnecessarily detract from the stronger story lines.
