A PREMONITION THAT'S NOT BAD

Premonition stars Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon. I came across this movie on TV and I actually liked it a lot. I was quite shocked to read all the negative comments about this movie on the Internet. It was rated very low on RottenTomatoes, and Rebecca Murray wrote about it negatively in her movie review in About.com. Most of them think the movie was a waste of time. It really wasn't that bad. I mean, it's not fantastic Spielberg but it has quite a nice twist and I like twists. 

The movie is about Sandra Bullock having a premonition about her husband's death. The movie is interestingly arranged in a very confusing time-line. 

The movie starts on Wednesday.

Sandra found out about her husband's death. She went to bed that night and when she woke up the next day, she finds her husband alive and It's Monday.

So Sandra goes on with her Monday, and then she sleeps. When she woke up, she realized that it is Thursday and her husband is dead. Her mum was there to console her. When she went back to sleep and wakes up, it's Monday again. She went to sleep on Monday and wakes up to Friday. Friday was her husband's funeral. She sleeps on Friday and wakes up to Saturday, the day she was sent to the asylum because her mum feels that she is insane due to the stress of her husband's death.

Basically the whole story happens in a stretch of one week, from Sunday to Saturday. Sandra Bullock has no idea of what she is going through until Saturday, after being sedated in the asylum.

At the asylum, she sleeps and wakes up and found out that it's Tuesday. So, she got organised and arranged all the events that happened according to the days. Soon, she realized that Wednesday was the day her husband died. She can still stop it. But she found out something which caused her to be in a dilemma to whether or not warn her husband about his death. Whether or not he survived, you might have to watch.

But from the reviews, maybe you have an idea already. In the end, most people find it time wasting. I find it quite interesting because the arrangement of the time and space is quite different from other movies. You really have to be attentive to understand the story. 

However, most people feel that the movie failed to bring out enough anxiety to the mystery elements of the story. I have no idea why they said that because I was practically jumping off my chair in the last scene - excited to find out whether or not her husband will make it in the end.