Premonition

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Did I enjoy this movie? - Yes. Would I see it again? - Yes. Was it a great film? - Who cares because I enjoyed it. I am a hopeless romantic and I am firmly of the opinion that if you spend good money to see a film, attend a theatre production or read a book, to a certain extent, you have to suspend belief to allow yourself to enjoy the event. A lot of people have criticised this film for factual or plot inconsistencies – I'm glad they have the time to observe and report them. Many others criticised the ending – I thought it was inevitable. What moved me about this film was the 'miracle' factors, if you like. None of us would be given the opportunity that Linda was granted. She had, what appeared to be, a normal happy marriage and family life and all was fine. One day, the door bell rang and she opened the door to face the nightmare that we all fear, the news that she had lost the love of her life, her partner, the father to her children in a tragic accident. Then the first 'miracle' began. She was suddenly allowed to experience a confused 'replay' of the days leading up to this tragedy. It seemed to be played out in two phases. Firstly, she was an observer, trying to may sense of the alternating premonition days and facts. Secondly, she began to make sense of these facts taking control and changing events. She began to understand that her marriage was not as perfect as it seemed. She also found out that her husband was starting another relationship. She was granted the opportunity and time to come to the conclusion that she did truly love her husband, to let him know this and to take action to change events. Ultimately her actions probably sealed his fate but then, maybe his fate was never able to be changed. What she was able to do, in those brief few days, was to revisit her marriage and family, to reconfirm the love for her husband and to be granted the second 'miracle', the opportunity of a new life.

The plot holes in this movie were so annoying that it just left a bad taste in the mouth. Yes, I understand that she lived the days of that week out of sequence and as a result she was a bit confused about what was going on. But why was everyone else confused? Why was her mother asking what happened to her daughter's face when it had happened 4 days previously and she had been with her since the accident? Why had she no scars in the first scene of the movie - that through me off completely. I gave the movie more credit than it deserved for the first half hour because of this - I thought that she might somehow be influencing the events of the movie but no - she makes absolutely no attempt to change anything until it is too late. Why not tell her husband to avoid that highway? No that would both be too simple and intelligent. And of course, it makes the seemingly obligatory reference to the fact that if you don't believe in Jesus, your life is empty and you have no soul. Avoid, avoid

Being a great fan of Sandra Bullock, I had high hopes for this movie. Part of the big letdown is that the trailer made out the movie to be a thriller or a mystery, but the psychotic jumble of out-of-sequence of scenes became tedious instead of interesting. The husband's character was lame and shallow. I kept thinking, why is she even married to this oaf? He had no personality whatsoever, partly because he had very few lines in the movie. I blame this on whomever wrote the script. Did we even believe for a second that the husband cares for her? The husband was such a jerk, by the time the movie ended, I actually WANTED him to die. Also, after the accident with the sliding glass door, the husband says, "why didn't you put stickers up?". He was accusing his wife of being guilty for his own daughter's stupidity. How dumb was that? Having grown up with sliding glass doors my whole life, we never put stickers on ours and little kids didn't try to run through the glass. That scene was very unrealistic. The ending was just plain stupid. The husband turns his car around on the WRONG side of a hill -- if he got killed, he deserved to for being such an idiot. If Sandra's character really wanted to save him, she should have told him to get out of the car and run up the hill. You wouldn't tell him to turn around and block traffic. Once again, stupid and unrealistic!! Finally, my main complaint is that the movie itself has lots of "dramatic" moments that you make a mental note of and then they are never explained. You find out at the end that none of them mean anything. I don't like being "highjacked" at the end by being told that the whole film had been meaningless. I give this movie a grade of "D minus".

Since others have already mentioned the numerous plot holes in this mess, I don't feel it's necessary to repeat them here. I will add, however, that plot consistency is crucial when a viewer is given the task to try and figure out what is happening. I love movies like Memento and Butterfly Kiss that screw around with time. I am good at keeping track of the time (immediately noticing the time problem with the daughter's face cuts) and enjoy the challenge of trying to figure out what's happening. The lack of consistency in this movie was incompetent and lazy. Another problem with the movie was its feeble attempt to present a deep message without providing it. Although there was a pretense about the importance of love and faith, it was her decision to honor her love for her husband that led her to attempt to save her husband's life. Ultimately, this love resulted in his death. The decision to honor this love was partly influenced by a discussion about faith with her priest. So her faith caused his death. If what happened to her happened to me, I'd throw faith out the window and never set foot in a church again. Simply put, this movie shows a lack of respect for the intelligence of audiences.

Premonition was a great movie. Everyone is complaining that there are plot holes and the movie is confusing and it could never really happen. You guys, don't you realize that this movie isn't even really about the premonition it's what stems from the premonition. Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) realizes that no matter how bad the situation may seem, there's always two sides to every story. Watching it you realize that we are all human, and we all make mistakes, and in the time watching the movie you feel what the character is feeling. You want to save Jim just so that things can go back to normal. And when you hear his heart felt apology and she realizes just how much she loves her husband only to have him ripped away from her you feel AWFUL. And then you realize that it was better for Jim to die with her knowing all of those things than it would be for him to die and her not know those things and never know what really happened to her husband. Premonition isn't just a suspense... it's a romantic tragedy. And I think it was well worth my time and money to go see it. And I think that if you just stop thinking about all the stupid technicalities, you'll feel the same way, too.

The film is bad. Worse than bad. Firstly if you have seen the trailer then you already know the plot of the entire film, so you don't have to bother watching the whole film. Also the film is very predictable, you can probably watch the trailer and guess how it will end. Also for time travel films of this nature continuity is so important. It must all add up so that there are no plot holes but half way through the film the writers and director drop the ball and make a large continuity error which ruined the film, from there on in a lost more interest as the film went on. The characters were also not likable and you really don't care what happens to them, i had no vested emotions in anyone...except maybe the husband who i felt sorry, because he was married to such a wet blanket. In the end you are left feeling depressed and wonder why they bothered to even make the film. Avoid this film.

Relative newcomers, writer Bill Kelly and director Mennan Yapo, have concocted a testy little conundrum of a movie titled PREMONITION: whether the audience decides to step into their little nightmare or reject the premise that powerful emotions can drive the brain to peculiar directions of functioning will be the divisive break in acceptance of the film's premise. It is a fairly well done, thought provoking experience and is carried by some better than average performances by a strong cast. The Hanson family is introduced as the husband Jim (Julian McMahon) and wife Linda (Sandra Bullock) buy their new home. Jump forward after the credits to a family that now includes two young schoolgirls (Shyann McClure and Courtney Taylor Burness), a seemingly mildly depressed Linda and a workaholic Jim. Abruptly, Linda is informed by a police officer that Jim has died in an auto accident and her close friend (Nia Long) and mother (Irene Ziegler) help Linda through the early moments of the tragedy. Yet Linda continues to 'relive' moments: one day Jim is dead the next he is alive, and all of the pieces of the puzzle that erode Linda's mind become clues to investigate information she doesn't want to know. She encounters a warped psychiatrist (Peter Stormare) and a possible 'other woman' in Jim's life (Amber Valletta), and as she attempts to mold the puzzle pieces to make sense, she learns about the possible 'why' of the mental state in which she is trapped. The film has problems holding credibility, but then the premise is a novel enough to allow such missteps. Sandra Bullock takes over this role completely, gains our empathy, and in the end the film works because of her. She is becoming an actress who is learning the value of understatement and that aspect of her craft serves her well. No, this is not a great movie, but it is a well-produced little mystery that asks the audience to engage both mind and imagination, and that is a good thing! Grady Harp

Even though 'Premonition' is a remake, it starts off quite well by creating the suspense but as the story proceeds, we are presented with more plot holes (the scar on the daughter's face was absent on Wednesday but she crashed into glass on Tuesday) and towards the end it all becomes ridiculously messy. It is quite well shot and Sandra Bullock does a commendable job carrying the whole film. However the writing is a letdown and the background score acts as a spoiler. The supporting cast does not stand out much as they are not given much to do. Julian McMahon is quite okay. 'Premonition' pretty much turns out just to be another one of those thrillers that one can watch once and then forget. Towards the end, the writer throws in the religious angle (Bullock's character was not portrayed as someone religious or one who lost faith, thus this does not quite fit) which looks forced and of course the usual Hollywood ending. It is not exactly a boring film as one would sit through it till the end. Mostly because we are interested to know what happens to Linda (Bullock makes us care about her). Other than that, the film creates a mood that keeps the viewer somewhat involved.