Best movie of this year hands down!

Purely Joyful Movie!

Absolutely Fantastic

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

A potpourri of "The Twilight Zone," "Groundhog Day," and "Final Destination," this enterprise is imaginative, commercial, and confusing. Sandra Bullock is the ordinary suburban housewife with a husband and two daughters who is visited by the sheriff and informed that her husband was killed in a crash with a jack knifed eighteen-wheeler at mile 220 of a local highway. This is upsetting news. Jim had dropped off the girls at school and was on his way to work at the office when his car was completely demolished along with its driver.So far, so bad. But then a curious thing happens. She wakes up the next morning and there's Jim at the kitchen table drinking coffee and watching the news. The two girls treat the situation as perfectly normal. And off they go, leaving Bullock to wonder what the hell is going on. Next day, he's dead again, and the house is besieged by relatives and friends wearing black and sympathizing with Bullock. She becomes hysterical, denying that Jim is dead and friends hustle her off to bed to "get some sleep." It goes on like this for several days. Each episode from the future explains some puzzling phenomenon from what Bullock perceives as the present. At one point in the future, she shrieks when she sees her little girl's face blighted by a multitude of scars. During one of her "present" episodes, the cuts are explained. (I think.) In a "future" episode she spots a pretty and grieving blond observing the funeral from a distance but the blond won't speak to Bullock, an incident which arouses her suspicions and they turn out to be justified. She seeks advice from friends, from her mother, and from a doctor who brazenly accuses her of wanting her husband dead and prescribes lithium because "it will help you cope." Actually it wouldn't unless she were bipolar, which she's not -- but who cares? Certainly not the writers. A priest tells her to about premonitions from the distant past and suggests she continue to have hope.The ending makes no sense; not to me, anyway. Somehow Bullock has kept track of the days as they've passed in the "present" -- that is, when Jim was still alive. So on the day he's suppose to be doomed, she chases after him madly on his way to work and phone him from her car to pull off the road at once. They are now at mile 220 of the local highway, where the deadly accident is suppose to have taken place. He obligingly drives off the road, her car stops a quarter of a mile behind his. It's about time for him to be creamed by a truck -- but both Bullock and Jim are now safely off the empty highway. Then, for reasons known only people who write screenplays, she calls him again -- and tells him to PULL OUT ON THE HIGHWAY AND TURN AROUND. His car stalls straddling both lanes. Pow.Bullock is her quiet self throughout except during adventitious periods of panic, when it seems that the musical score needs the lithium more than she does. Nobody else's acting needs any comments; they all hit their spots and recite their lines professionally. I wish you good luck in your grasp of the chronology.

"Premonition" had all the elements for being a great thriller, but it ended up as a somewhat mediocre mess. The jumping around days part was interesting, but it was ultimately the director who killed the potential of "Premonition".Normally I do like the performances in movies by Sandra Bullock, but she was way off in "Premonition". I didn't buy into her performance as a woman who had just lost her husband and the father of their daughters. It was like she wasn't fully there mentally, and that absent performance weighed down on the movie in overall. Julian McMahon did a good enough job as the husband and father.I was disappointed with the mediocrity of the movie, because I must admit that I had expected much more from a movie with Bullock and McMahon in the lead roles.The movie was also a bit shallow. The part with the affair in the making was just brought up briefly and then brushed well clear off the table. The characters could have used a bit more depth and background.All in all, not an overly impressive or memorable thriller. This is not a movie at the top of the recommendation list if you want to watch a good thriller.

There are good Sandra Bullock movies and then there are bad Sandra Bullock movies. Unfortunately, this one falls into the latter category, but not through any real fault of the star.I have no problem with non-linear movies or with movies that require the audience to think, but this movie tries too hard to create an usual situation just to be interesting but fails to add any reason for the situation's occurrence. The premise involves the apparently happy housewife (played by Ms. Bullock) receiving some tragic news at the outset. However, when she wakes the next day it is as if the tragedy never occurred. Next day, she awakes back in the world with the tragedy. Apparently, she is jumping ahead and back in time, which could be interesting, but the movie fails to offer any reason why this is occurring to this character. Is she suffering from a mental breakdown? Or if not, are we to assume that this time-travel happens to other people? If the situation is not one caused by a mental breakdown, why is Ms. Bullock's character singled out for this phenomena? No explanation is given or even alluded to. You will leave the movie scratching your head.

Bollock is a stand out in this psychological thriller that focuses on her characters life. One day she is told her husband has passed away......the next day she awakes to find he's alive. Then he's gone again. She is confused and depressed and her friends and family are convinced she's insane. She starts to wonder about her own state of mind and just does such a true and strong depiction acting out this character. Her confusion and fear, the scene when she is swirling it all through her mind in the middle of a street.....brought back to reality by the cars horn. Good stuff. Although this is an older film It is one worth seeing. It will hold your interest and you'll want to see again.