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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 24661
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:
Premonition DVD 
2009-11-24 - Now this was my favorite movie I liked this Sandra Bullock place the part perfect I had to get this I kept seeing this on tv and wanted it now I have some of her movies that I really like thanks it came on time and I enjoyed this movie
I should have had a premonition before I wasted my money 
2009-11-21 - I'm a big Sandra Bullock fan, but she's let me down more than once- SPEED 2 comes to mind, and this movie too.
I have to admit that she didn't have much to work with, but she produced this turkey, so she has no excuse.
There is really nothing going for this film, even the rip-off of Phillip Glass' FACADES score. The plot is confused, meant to be so as to build suspense, but there is really no suspense, and by the time the movie ends you've figured it out and don't really care.
Sandra, and you, can do better.
United We Fall
2009-11-20 - I watched this film tonight. At least I think it was tonight. But instead maybe I had a dream I watched the film, but won't actually watch it until Wednesday night. In any case, blame it on the roses, blame it on the wind but I'm not sure I completely followed what all was going on. Spoilers ahoy. Read on if you've already seen the movie.
As far as I can gather, there seem to have been multiple possible histories competing with one another for actuality. In one possible history, Sandra Bullock is estranged from her husband and they have a crumbling loveless marriage, though he does wind up falling all over himself to give her some head.
In another possible history, which seems not actually to have occurred, a sinister psychiatrist is drugging Bullock with... Lithium? Did the screenwriter research this at all? Lithium is not an antipsychotic, nor is it very widely prescribed for people whose heads are coming apart so bad they don't know whether they're Hall or Oates. But Lithium, nevertheless, is most sinisterly prescribed. I think the same shrink may have sinisterly suggested magnesium supplements as well, in a vaguely suspicious barely concealed French-Canadian accent no less. Ah well. But it was not to be, apparently. Nor was it quite to be that Bullock gets popped into the loony bin for slicing her daughter's face up.
However the film-makers do at least supply a blooper reel featuring an assortment of mystics culled from the north of Britain ("I sez to me Harry, I sez, Don't let's tonight... it gives me a rum go. An' that seam night the pub caeved in on isself, teakin' the souls of thirty football supporters down wi' er."; "Yar... I seen 'im: the Loch Ness Monster, sure as'm standin' 'ere!"; "I seen the trein go off the rails, real bloody-like, joos like it duz in me bleedin' paintin's.")
But getting back to the movie, in the end, it does seem to have seemingly come to pass that hubby gets a bionic haircut from a jack-knifing gasoline truck... though one can't be fully sure this really happened. After all, the movie in its entirety could have been a bad dream that the viewer... I mean Bullock, yes, Bullock, had and was now in the process of being disabused of as she walks out of the theater... I mean prepares to sell the house her husband bought with that raise he got for being promoted at whatever company he worked for selling whatever it was he sold. It does indeed seem that the house her husband bought for her didn't bring them much happiness, and the poignancy of the movie resides in this subtext of family life gone awry and no possibility of touching those we hold dear.
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.
