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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 20293
Released: July 17, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Premonition (Full Screen):
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
Premonition (Full Screen) Reviews:
Very Good 
2009-11-09 - this is a very good movie sandra bullock is awesome in this movie. i love this movie and so will you. I recommend this movie to everyone
great movie
2009-10-18 - sandra does a great job in this movie like some of her other movies. i like it i felt a little sad at the end on what happen.
Too Sad, Too Slow, With Fuzzy Slippers 
2009-09-12 - Directed by Mennan Yapo
Written by Bill Kelly
Linda and Jim lead a perfect life. They live in an impossibly pretty house in the quietest and most picturesque suburb ever invented by Hollywood. They have two adorable daughters. And somehow Jim earns enough money to allow Linda a full-time mommy career without money worries.
The film begins with a tragedy. Linda wakes up and goes about her daily routine, expecting Jim to return from his latest business trip later in the day. She is stunned when a police officer knocks at her door and announces that her husband has been killed in an auto accident.
Linda copes, mainly by giving in to shock. She breaks the terrible news to her kids and asks her mother to stay with the family for a while. Tentatively, the women begin to talk about funeral plans.
The next day Linda wakes up, and cannot find her mother in the house. She goes to the kitchen and finds her husband drinking coffee, preparing for his business trip.
From this point on, the film unfolds in a series of events and possibilities. With each possibility, Linda must re-evaluate her feelings about her husband, the state of their marriage, and the kind of person she is. All of this plays a vital part in unraveling the mystery of her premonition or apprehension of her husband's impending accident. With each step, Linda feels more certain that she can change what is to be. But does she want to?
The producers of Premonition would be justified in wondering why their stab at the New Hollywood Quasi-Horror Genre was not a chart-busting hit. After all, they built in all the requisites:
* likable star (Bullock)
* a fixable family conflict
* something spooky messin' w/ likable star's mind
* complex narrative structure to impress viewers who can't follow it and flatter those who can
* big and accessible message about Life
Unfortunately this story is a bit too clever for its own good. But it isn't ruined by cleverness. It is ruined by sentiment. Cut the unintentionally hilarious funeral scene, a heavy dose of religion supplemented by a family vitamin, and a moment near the end in which Sandra Bullock shouts a phrase one too many times while barreling down the street, limbs Dave Attell-style-akimbo in fuzzy robe and slippers--and this thing might have worked.
But the producers didn't cut these things. Which means they didn't find them as funny as they obviously are. And when you don't know that your operatic funeral scene is guaranteed to elicit belly laughs, you probably shouldn't be dabbling in the New Hollywood Quasi-Horror Genre. Because this kind of film flies or dies on the ability of its creators to recognize humor when it slaps them on the back of the head.
In this regard the creators of Premonition don't seem to have a clue. Their story is so dour, and Linda is so sad, and the kids are so good and precious, and the setting is so perfect, it's borderline daytime TV material. There are no truly ironic or sardonic moments in the script. The characters don't share anything offbeat or charming that might win us over and make us want them to stay together. They're a typical, slightly disillusioned couple with no quirks or aspirations.
At one point the story seems about to get darker and weirder, when Linda appears to be responsible for a child's injury. But this line isn't pursued very far, and we're soon returned to the land of the impossibly pretty suburb of dreams. By the last, sappy scene, I just didn't care any more.
enjoyable 
2009-08-08 - This movie was really good. Basically, without spoiling the actual storyline, everything you see in the beginning of the movie isn't actually happening. The question is, WILL it happen, or will Sandra Bullock be able to stop it in time?
There's a twist at the very end of the movie that I NEVER seen coming, and to be totally honest, I don't quite understand what happened during the last two minutes of the movie. If someone wants to explain it to me in the comment field below, please do!
Anyway, the acting was really good, Sandra's character was in good shape, the guessing game deciding what's happening in the present time and what HASN'T happened yet is something you will be trying to figure out for yourself while watching the movie.
Too many times I was never really sure what was happening for real and what was just a premonition of Sandra's character. You love movies like this because you just never know if someones premonitions will eventually happen or if the future disasters that come to someones mind can be stopped in time. This is another one of those movies, but done exceptionally well. I recommend it.
Not bad but a bit slow 
2009-07-21 - I thought this movie would have been better. As a plot it was very good but the movie moves slowly. Saw better movies from Sandra Bullock altough hover here her acting is very good.
