Cast: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMohan
Direction: Mennan Yapo
What is it that draws Sandra Bullock to these time-bending dramas? At the cinemas this week is the actress' latest film, Premonition, a thriller about a woman whose perfect life is thrown horribly off course when she's informed that her husband's been killed in a car crash.
That's not even half the problem really, as she wakes up the next morning to find him very much alive and cosying up to her in bed.
The next day, it's his funeral. The day after that he's alive and playing with the kids. Then, he's dead again. Then alive. Then dead. Then alive….
Now this goes on for about a week, and naturally our friend here feels she's losing her mind.
That's until she cracks the puzzle like it's some maths homework, and realizes she just might be able to alter the future.
Believe me, by the time you've reached this point in the film, you couldn't care less whether her husband's really dead or alive, and quite frankly your concern is directed solely towards yourself, hoping you make it out of the cinema alive, and not bored to death by this incoherent, absurd story.
You know it wasn't very long ago I saw Sandra Bullock in that other film The Lake House, also a similarly pseudo-surreal film about blurring timelines.
And as ridiculous as that film was, it still had a pulse to it. This one's just nonsense because it lacks basic logic. The single interesting thing in this film is its climax, which is quite unexpected and throws you off completely, but still not worth suffering the entire film for.
I used to like Sandra Bullock when she did those sweet romantic-comedies and I want to see her stick to that, even if she's a little older now. It’s better that than this nonsense.
That's one out of five and a thumbs down for Premonition - let me safely say here, I've got a premonition, poor Sandra Bullock's going to lose a few fans thanks to this travesty of a film.
Rating: 1 / 5 (Poor)
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