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A 2007 horror movie starring Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon.

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Not Quite as Good As Deja Vu

Mar 6, 2009

by MichaelN

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-1

This movie came out about the same time as another film called Deja Vu. Both films dealt with time travel to some degree and centered around preventing a death. This movie doesn't quite measure up to the other film.

It takes place over a week, however the days occur out of sequence. Sandra Bullock goes to sleep with a seemingly happy family of two girls and a husband. She wakes up to find that her husband died during an out of town trip that she doesn't remember. She then goes to sleep and wakes up to find that her husband is still alive and the days seem to be out of sequence. Her husband's death apparently occurred on Wednesday and each time Bullock awakes it is first a day later in the week from Wednesday then a day earlier in the week than Wednesday.

When Bullock starts piecing together what is going on with her, she has to decide if she wants to do nothing to prevent her husband from dieing or let things take her course (she learns that he may have been cheating on her).

When all is resolved, the viewer is shaking their head, specifically at Bullocks non-attempt to alter even the smallest thing (she finds a torn out page from the Yellow Pages in a trash can and when she goes back in time she realizes that she is throwing the same page into the trash can. She could have done a little nuance to change things by removing the paper from the trash). The very last scene of the movie made very little sense to me and I felt that I had wasted two hours watching this mismash. See Deja Vu instead!

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Scotman March 19, 2010

Wow, you're generous! I gave it two stars because I like Bullock. The ending was really stupid.

MichaelN March 19, 2010

My thoughts exactly and I probably gave it three stars for the same reason.

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review by vemartin. June 09, 2008

HUH?

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Premonition is a 2007 drama film directed by Mennan Yapo and starring Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon. Principal photography took place in Louisiana.

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Cast: Sandra Bullock, Peter Stormare, Matt Moore, Marc Macaulay, Marcus Brown, Amber Valletta, Ritchie Montgomery, Jude Ciccolella, Julian McMahon, Kate Nelligan, Nia Long, Courtney Taylor Burness, Shyann McClure, Irene Ziegler, Phillip DeVona, Laurel Whitsett, Kristin Ketterer, Jason Douglas, Dave Shaffer, Floriana Tullio, Mark Famiglietti, E.J. Stapleton

Director: Mennan Yapo

Genre: Action, Adventure

Release Date: March 16, 2007

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Screen Writer: Bill Kelly

DVD Release Date: August 04, 2009

Runtime: 1hr 36min

Studio: TriStar Pictures

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