Premonition (Widescreen Edition)
by Mennan Yapo
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Actor: Amber Valletta, Courtney Taylor Burness, Julian McMahon, Sandra Bullock, Shyann McClureDirector: Mennan Yapo
Brand: Sony
Producer: Adam Shankman
Producer: Andrew Sugerman
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Producer: Gina Fortunato
Producer: Jennifer Gibgot
Producer: Jon Jashni
Writer: Bill Kelly
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-17
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Premonition (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Watchable, but not anything innovative
Summary: 2 Stars
Sandra Bullock is an endlessly likeable actress. No matter what role she's given, she plays it straight and plays it well. The actresses who play her children are adorable. Julian McMahon is as one-dimensional as possible in his role as her husband. I don't think that is his fault. The actress playing Sandra Bullock's mother, the actress playing her best friend...the same thing. One-dimensional. No real sense of connection. All of their acting feeling forced. I think it is the writers' fault. In fact, if this film had better writing, it would be at least a 3-star movie in my opinion.
The film has a far-fletched plot anyway. I won't write about that because enough reviewers already have. However, under better writers, at least the moviegoer might actually CARE about these characters (Sandra Bullock excluded- no matter how bad the writing, I always care about her character).
The movie portrays that, over the years, the couple has grown apart. However, the movie never says WHY. No details. No real reasons. And, thus, the distance between the couple seems unfathomable.
The relationship between Sandra's character and her best friend also seemed forced, unexplained, and without chemistry. Same with Sandra's character's mother. The only chemistry I saw at all was between Sandra's character and the actresses playing her children.
This could have been extraordinary, if given better writing, possibly a better supporting cast and a much better ending. I'm sure the ending has already discussed elsewhere, so I won't bring it up again. I'll just say I found it to be an outdated, utter cliche, far beneath the movie's potential. Sad.
Summary of Premonition (Widescreen Edition)
Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she gets the devastating news that her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning to find him alive and well, she assumes it as all a dream. Or was it? Suddenly, her perfect life is turned upside down as she begins a desperate scramble to save her family and uncover the truth. Racing against time and fate, Linda will stop at nothing to discover the true meanings of reality and destiny.In Premonition, Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) is living in the Twilight Zone as she experiences recurring dreams of her husband's car crash, mediated by days in which the tragedy hasn't yet happened. By the time Linda does see her husband Jim's (Julian McMahon) death, one feels relieved instead of grievous. Though Premonition mines fascinating material, investigating the ways women in particular have uncanny psychic abilities to predict impending family dangers, Linda's premonitions are so convoluted, even to her, that it is difficult to determine their reality. Unrealistic scenes involving a sadistic psychiatrist and an unwarranted lithium prescription would lead one to question Linda's sanity, but instead add falseness to the story. Irritating sequences in which Linda confides in a priest at the local church, who tells her that faith will heal all, seem like Christian propaganda that completely eradicates any real witchcraft in the story. For a truly scary film about clairvoyance, see Dario Argento's Phenomena. Premonition is a bogus take on psychic prediction, as tearjerking as Ghost was during Patrick Swayze's heyday. --Trinie Dalton
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