[.ca] Premonition (Widescreen)

\o2.5\c--Predictable with a little message:
Sandra Bullock has the keen sensitivity to pick up some roles that she thinks she can create a niche and leave a mark of her acting skills. That is what interests me to see her movies. In "Premonition" - a time-tripping attempt to do for marital malaise what "Groundhog Day" did for commitment-phobia - a bored housewife named Linda (Sandra Bullock) wakes up one day, like any other day, and goes about her daily routine. She makes breakfast, takes the kids to school, jogs, does laundry - the usual. The day then takes a tragic turn when Linda learns, from an all too cryptic policeman, that her husband (Julian McMahon from "Nip/Tuck") has been killed in a car accident. Understandably, Linda takes the rest of the day to grieve and console her two daughters before passing out on the couch. The next day she wakes up in her bed...next to her husband - who is, it turns out, quite alive. Was it all a dream? Eventually (and it takes her a while to figure it out) it becomes clear that Linda is living the days of one week in random order. And, at some point, her husband is going to die. It's an intriguing concept for a film with something to say, or a character with the smarts to use this phenomenon to her advantage. "Premonition" has neither. In the film's early moments, director Mennan Yapo - who made 2004's appropriately atmospheric "Soundless" - does an admirable job of keeping the audience off balance - at times quite literally; his frequent swaying handheld shots produce a vertiginous effect. But as the film progresses and the audience struggles to keep track of the days, even fancy camera moves don't help. I could see what relative-newcomer Bill Kelly was trying to do with his script: he meant to say something about treasuring each day because the end could come at anytime. But the effect of jumping randomly around the days of one week as if "they were thrown up in the air like a deck of cards" is too arbitrary to produce any real intrigue and repeated trips to find her husband in the shower brought to mind a certain infamous "Dallas" season finale (I half expected Patrick Duffy to be standing there). It's clear the film is struggling to keep the suspense up when it throws in the peculiar casting of Peter Stormare as Dr. Roth, filmdom's most ominous psychiatrist. It's hard to dislike Sandra Bullock. Whether she's playing the lovelorn The Lake House (Widescreen Edition) or the love-starved 28 Days (Special Edition)the actress has an innate charm that can make some of the drippiest material palatable. Since Speed (Widescreen Edition)Ms. Bullock has tried her hand at thrillers with largely disappointing results The Net (Special Edition)"Murder by Numbers (Widescreen Edition). The obvious reason would appear to be the questionable material involved, but that's not entirely the case Miss Congeniality (Deluxe Edition) wasn't brilliant writing, but it played to Ms. Bullock's charisma). In "Premonition", 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.

morbid,overly depressing, pointless and incoherent:
talk about a painful movie to watch.this is it.i found it morbid,overly depressing and pointless,as i mentioned in the summary.usually when things happen in a movie, there is a reason for them.not in his movie.it doesn't make sense and it just sort of ends,with no explanation.i found it wholly unsatisfying.Sandra Bullock demonstrates she is a fine dramatic actress,but i think she picked the wrong movie to display her ability.the trailers made the movie look interesting,and if it actually made some sense and wasn't so incoherent,it might have been.my friend i both agreed,it was one of the biggest wastes of time for both of us,in a long while.i certainly wouldn't recommend it.for me,this is a one star movie and that might even be too much. 1/5

This is not a good movie, don't waste your money.:
Personally, I am a fan of Sandra Bullock, I like her movie, yet this one is really really disappointed me. The reason why? You will find out so easy. After you watch the whole movie then YOU WILL FIND OUT ONE BIG PROBLEM OF THIS MOVIE. Which is from the "Wednesday" to "Thursday". At the begining of the movie that there has a cop went to Bullock's houose and told her that her husband was died. Yet at the end of the movie "Wednesday", she try to stop the accident happen, but as you know, its still happen, and her husband died. That's the problem, if a normal person, you saw your love one died, do you think you will just go home and sleep. Personally, I will stay at the hospital for the whole night, or the cops will contact your family, and you may have your family stay with you, right? Thus the whole movie got this BIG BIG problem. It cannot connect the time between "Wednesday" and "Thursday". That's the reason I will give this movie negative fee back.

Likeable if not a little weird:
This is a movie you may dislike intensely or really like the quirkiness of it. If you aren't good at thinking outside the box into the realms of illogical thought, then don't bother. I like movies that make me think and this one does. You have to be able to sort out the jumble of what's going on in your head. what is going on, is that Sandra Bullock's character is waking up on different days that are not in a logical order. So she wakes up in the future when her husband is not there, and then she wakes up and he is there. It can be confusing if you don't have the brain power, or logical over-ride to understand this. Not one of her best movies but it made me work my brain which is why I awarded it 4 stars. Most movies bore me to death because they are predictable and this one isn't

Every day we are alive can be a miracle:
Shades of Groundhog Day or some more sophisticated what if time travel. I was surprised at how tight the story is and every minute, every word, and every movement had a part in this story. They actors were well chosen as from the beginning to end you believe their characters are real and that you are taking part in the story. House wife Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) finds out that her husband (Julian McMahon) has died. And wake up the next day to find him there. This is only the beginning. Soon she realized that it is probably a premonition. The story is also filled out with what could have been and what may have been. And what should have been. Sandra puts us all in a different Zeite.