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Ashok Amritraj (Shop Girl, Raising Helen), Jennifer Gibgot (Step Up, The Pacifier), Jon Joshni (Shop Girl), Sunil Perkash (first Producer credit), Adam Shankman (Step Up) |
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If you’ve got a feeling this movie’s going to be good, is it just wishful thinking . . . or Premonition???
Linda Hanson (played by Sandra Bullock) is having a normal day of getting the kids to school, grocery shopping and doing laundry, when the worst possible thing happens. A police officer comes to her door and informs her that her husband Jim (played by Julian McMahon) was killed in a car accident. She thought nothing could rock her world any more until the next morning when she wakes up to find Jim alive and fine and it’s actually several days earlier. Now every time she goes to sleep at night, she wakes on a day that sometimes is after her husband was killed and sometimes before. She’s now faced with the challenge to find a way to try to change her husband’s destiny, but not until she decides if she really wants to change his destiny.
Sandra Bullock is as good as ever, and the time travel thing is always intriguing. But, time travel is tricky . . . both doing it and depicting it. And, unfortunately, Premonition struggles with its depiction. There seems to be numerous holes and timeline inconsistencies that tend to distract and frustrate those trying to figure it all out. As it turns out, the movie’s drama is less about unraveling the time travel mystery, or exploiting or escaping it, and more about Sandra’s character coping with her emotions and how living her days out of order changes her perspective on things. Much like her movie The Lake House last year, Premonition is much more Lifetime Channel drama than science fiction thriller. And, in that genre, the strange circumstances and strong acting create a relatively decent experience. |
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On the Movie Night Traffic Light on a scale of GREEN meaning “Go – it’s a must see”, YELLOW meaning “Caution – it’s okay” and RED meaning “No - stop don’t do it."
We rate Premonition YELLOW. Caution – this one isn’t great, it’s just okay. |
