4 Sep 2007

Premonition

Director: Mennan Yapo

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Mark Famiglietti, Kate Nelligan, Nia Long, Amber Valetta

Release: 2007-09-04

The worst movie of the week, Premonition stars Sandra Bullock as a happily married woman with kids who wakes up one morning to learn that her husband (Julian McMahon) has perished in a car wreck. After mourning his death, she wakes up the next morning to find him very much happy and alive.

What's going on? Is she imagining things? As the days go by, she realises that the day-to-day sequence of her life has been weirdly, chronologically rearranged so that she is never quite sure if she'll wake up to find him dead or alive. More mysteries abound, like the mysterious beautiful woman (Amber Valetta) who seems to know her husband better than she should, and the scars on Sandra's daughter's face…

Yet for all its attempt at suspense and intrigue, Premonition is just too bizarre and complicated to be watchable. We cannot identify with her situation or her character because not much that she's experiencing resembles life and human emotions as we know it. Even though all the actors give decent performances, the film is not even half-decent.