Premonition
Premonition
Score: 5/10
This movie had the potential to be good. But then again, it had the potential to be another Lake House as well. So, going into this movie I was prepared for anything. Well, let’s just say that the coolest part of this movie is the poster. It’s not necessarily bad, but there’s nothing really good about it. Most of the time I felt like I was watching an attempt to recreate Memento with it’s time traveling forward and backward premise, but it doesn’t even come close. All credit goes to Sandra Bullock for pulling off the dual role of happy, loving mother and distressed headcase trying to figure out what’s happened to her husband. The real confusion sets in towards the middle of the movie as she keeps waking up with her husband dead some days, and right next to her the other. The only problem is there’s not much explanation most the movie and I was left scratching my head wondering where in time I was at now. Memento had that “oh yeah” factor after each scene when you realized the events you just saw were from the beginning of the last scene. But I never got that here until the very end. Of course everything makes sense in the last scene, but it should make at least a little sense during the bulk of the movie as well or you just leave the viewer as confused as Sandra Bullock was, and in this case that’s not an effect you want. I eventually realized the pajamas she would wake up in represented which day it was, so maybe another viewing would make more sense once I pay more attention to that, but that most likely won’t ever happen. Honestly, the movie is best summed up by Ann Hornaday of the Washinton Post when she describes it as “The Eternal Sixth Sense of the Spotless Groundhog Day”. It’s too bad it’s nowhere near as good as that title may suggest. It just tries to pull all those movies off at once and ends up confusing everyone but the guy who wrote it.
