Premonition (Blu-ray) (2007)

"...slick...effective...  Dennis Harvey, Variety
"...spooky and atmospheric...  Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Editor's Note Sandra Bullock (CRASH, MISS CONGENIALITY) stars as a housewife troubled by a tragic premonition in Mennan Yapo's thriller. Linda Hanson's life revolves around her beloved daughters (Shyann McClure and Courtney Taylor Burness) and her husband, Jim (Julian McMahon, CHARMED). The familiar, picture-perfect terrain of her existence is abruptly shattered when she is informed that Jim has died in a gruesome car accident, and Linda spends the rest of the day in shock. When she awakes the next morning to find Jim calmly eating breakfast in the kitchen, however, she is even more disturbed. As the week progresses, Linda wakes up to find Jim alive again or dead again in an increasingly complex pattern that she struggles to make sense of. Linda realizes she's in the midst of a premonition and decides she must try to save Jim, but when she finds out he might have been cheating on her, her resolve is seriously tested. PREMONITION should appeal to fans of Christopher Nolan's MEMENTO and M. Night Shyamalan's THE SIXTH SENSE, as it too presents an intriguing puzzle for the audience to solve. Despite a few plot holes, the film provides an interesting take on the mutability of time. The notion of a mysterious unknown beneath the mundanity of everyday life is attractive, and the exploration of time as twistable--rather than linear--is fascinating. Nia Long (ALFIE) plays Linda's best friend, and Amber Valetta (HITCH) plays the other woman in Jim's life.

	Julian McMahon
	Nia Long
	Peter Stormare
	Sandra Bullock
	Adam Shankman - Producer
	Bill Kelly - Writer
	J. Dennis Washington - Production Designer
	Klaus Badelt - Original Music By
	Mennan Yapo - Director
	Neil Travis - Editor
	Nick Hamson - Executive Producer
	Thomas T. Taylor - Art Director
	Torsten Lippstock - Cinematographer

ReelViews 7 of 10
Time travel movies meddle with paradoxes and causality - these things lie at the core of their essential fascination. The difference between a good time travel movie and a bad one often rests with one simple quality: Having established a set of "rules" by which the paradoxes are governed, does the film remain constrained by them or does it mutate them to fit the circumstances? Unfortunately, Premonition is plagued by inconsistencies. There's some interesting material in the film about pre-destination and questions about whether it's possible to change fate, but the movie is less interested in the philosophical implications of this than it is in developing a mystery and seeding red herrings...Instead of the paradoxes transforming into delicious puzzles, they become jigsaws where the pieces don't necessarily fit. So, although aspects of Premonition tantalize, other elements frustrate, and that makes for an uneasy final result. - James Berardinelli