Taryn's Corner Premonition | Premonition |
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| Written by Mitch Emerson | |
| Friday, 16 March 2007 | |
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Mark Famiglietti, Kate Nelligan,Nia Long Directed By: Mennan Yapo Produced By: Andrew Sugerman, Lars Sylvest, Nick Hamson Genre: Thriller Release Date: March 16th, 2007 MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violent content, disturbing images, thematic material and brief language Distributors: Sony Pictures Releasing When Linda Hanson is told that her husband Jim has been killed in a car crash, she is shocked to find him alive and well the next day. Linda’s premonition sets off a series of puzzling events as she tries to grasp the situation and stop the accident from happening. -Yahoo! Movies I'll be honest. I owe it to you readers. It has now been four hours since leaving the theater and I still don't know what the point of this movie was. I asked three other people who were attending the screening and they didn't know either. So hopefully this review isn't as disjointed as the movie was. Most movies of this type leave clues for the viewers to pick up on that point you to where the plot is going, even if the characters themselves don't see or aren't quick enough to catch them. Premonition just throws events at you willy nilly and lets you try to sort them out on your own. I honestly wonder about the state of cinema when an untried director like Mennan Yapo (this is only his third try at directing) can get a star like Sandra Bullock to be in a film this bad. What makes it bad? Almost everything. The acting, while not great isn't what kills this movie. Bullock and Julian McMahon can't really be blamed here but they could have turned up a little. The cinematography was bland with no style. Just straightforward storytelling which is fine if you have a good story to tell but here it just adds to the faults of the film. The way events unfold left me in a cloud of confusion. Supposedly Bullock knows that something is wrong and has a slight idea of what is going on, yet when she sees the things that have already happened she is clueless and only makes a real effort to save her hubby in the last five minutes of the movie. In one scene (without any prior mention of God, religion, faith or the church), Bullock goes to church to talk to the Father who just happens to have a book with post-its marking many different cases of premonitions and fortune telling. How handy is that? And, the only thing offered as an explanation is he says, “It's been a while.” and then you never see him again. That's just one example! Another example is the ending itself. So if you don't like spoilers, skip to the next paragraph. |
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