Dumb movie...but not quite bad enough for the Razzies. 

Ok, I finally saw this film and I actually liked it a lot more than I thought it would. I thought it would've been an average thriller but it was more than that! It made you think! Still, there are some minor holes (like the inconsistent scars) but overall, it was actually really good. And I heard people didn't like this movie because of the ending...

WELL SPOILERS!!!

well...why do people complain of the hollywood happy sappy ending? If they always complain each movie ends happily, and Premonition did not, then why are people complaining now, They all say "it was all for nothing". Well, how about Usual Suspects, Night of the Living Dead, and Saw and other movie ending with the bad guys winning over?

Can't you say all those movies were for nothing? I like it because, of course, it wasn't the usual happy ending but because it was happy in the end. She doesn't grieve over her husbands death because she is pregnant (from him). It all fits well.

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THat's why I liked the movie. And yes, I think audiences like this film while critics did not.

I think Sandra Bullock is a terrible actress. The only two movies I've ever liked her in was "Crash" and "Infamous". Other than that, I think she's very UNfunny, and remindes me alot of Fran Drescher from "The Nanny".

WOW! Just saw this on DVD -- What an idiotic, irritating, pointless movie! It was often convoluted in ways that actually seemed hostile to the audience -- And when all was said and done, it wasn't even as satisfying as an old "Twilight Zone" episode...At least those were only 30 minutes long, not 90+ !!!

Major spoilers.

Originally posted by cvcjr13 Has fatalism suddenly become entertaining?  Well, maybe in some movie I can't recall or have yet to view, but certainly NOT in this one.

Earlier today, three movies about fatalism came to my mind - the Final Destination movies.  What does it say about Premonition when Final Destination makes the same point in, dare I say, a more satisfying way?

WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS

Originally posted by cvcjr13 So, lump it in with Aeon Flux and Silent Hill.  The critics hate it, and the audience seems to be polarized about it.

Well, it's time to eat crow, especially after watching the crow.  A dead crow.  That has a lot of blood despite being long past dead and electrocuted.  And is full of maggots and horseflies, as if we were watching the Amityville Horror.

I liked Aeon Flux, and I liked Silent Hill.  However, Premonition failed to foresee its own disaster.  Anyone who read the script beforehand should have had a premonition.

Take Linda Hanson's (Bullock) daughter Bridgette (Courtney Taylor Burgess).  On the day Linda finds out her husband, Jim (Julian McMahon) is dead, Linda puts stickers on the glass door and Bridgette's face doesn't have a single scar.  However, the film reveals that Bridgette plowed through the glass door BEFORE Jim's death, and all other scenes after this incident have her scarred up.  So why isn't she scarred in the scene the day after his death?

But that's not the worst part.  The movie plods, like hiking through the mud in combat boots while carrying 200 pounds on your back.  I looked at my watch no fewer than 10 times through this movie.  It failed to captivate me.

That's still not the worst part, though.  That would go to the ending.  SPOILER.  What's the point of bouncing a character back and forth through space and time, which includes a lecture about fighting for what you believe in, when your child still winds up scarred from running through the glass door, when you still wind up being held for psychiatric observation with a needle in your arm, when your repentant husband still winds up dead, and, even worse, when you find out that you had a hand in causing his death.  What is the point of that?  Has fatalism suddenly become entertaining?  Well, maybe in some movie I can't recall or have yet to view, but certainly NOT in this one.  And what was this thing that Linda believed in that she was to fight for?  Maybe her family?  Is that it?  Can't tell with this movie. 

This doesn't even address the fact that the driver of the tanker truck that killed Jim should have seen Linda on the scene.  The driver would be able to place her at the scene of her husband's death, making the sheriff's notification the next day unnecessary.  And, really, with Linda being the woman that she is, I doubt she would have left the scene before the police arrived.

To be fair, the acting was excellent except for McMahon's dull performance.  Because of the acting and a few inspired moments, I gave it a generous 4 at IMDb.  That said, the HeadRazzberry points out that a star of Bullock's calibre and (at least at one time) box office draw should have seen the flaws in the script and demanded that they be corrected.  If she didn't say yes, it would not have been made.  I don't mind time yet another time travel movie, as long as it holds my interest.  So if Bill Kelly is nominated for worst screenplay and Mennan Yapo for worst director, I'll be voting for them, and I'd recommend Sandra Bullock for worst actress and Julian McMahon for worst supporting actor unless there are even worse out there (Epic Movie and Blood and Chocolate being two of them).

I think Premonition deserves a C for CRAP!!! This movie was god awful, i only saw it because i couldnt see 300. I had a nice nap though, and a few laughs. Like when The ladys daughter jogs toward a sliding glass door and breaks it with her face resulting in heavy cgi bleeding. Should have been a commercial for windex. I like how they spend 5 minutes on Sandra Bullock making a sad face to show that she is sad. I like how they spend 5 minutes on Sandra bullock making a confused face to show how she is confused. I like how the movie ended without solving anything really and not changing anything from the begginning. I like how nia long had four lines in this movie ,nd they didnt have anything to do with anything but some good reviewers said she gave a powerful performance. This movie was sooooooo Gay. OMG. It was pointless. People who said it was a good movie are so Homo. They try and make it seem more complicated than it really is.

Actual Review:

" This movie started to freak me out, and confuse me. I guess it's important to know the meaning of the word "Premonition" before you watch a movie with that title. "

No bull thats a real review.

Not That Confusing the trailer is the entire movie.

Originally posted by Razzilla Come on...it can't be THAT bad...it only has 8% approval at RT at this time...

Critics are at 8%, but the users are at 59%.  At this point, it seems this is one of those movies that the critics hate but the rest of the audience likes.

Notice I said "like", not "love".  Although it seems good number of users have given it 4-1/2 to 5 stars, there have been enough low user votes to pull the overall total down to 59%.

The user rating at IMDb is 5.3.  Even though 58% of the users gave it a higher rating, the 28 users among the top 1000 gave it an average of 4.8, pulling the overall total down. 

So, lump it in with Aeon Flux and Silent Hill.  The critics hate it, and the audience seems to be polarized about it.

Yea the Catagory we should have this year is "Worst Excuse for a Thriller and/ or a Horror Movie," considering every other movie coming out this year seems to be a really bad thriller, or a horror movie that rips offf some thing that's already been done, or sequel to one...

I Just found out that on Boxofficemojo.com that Premonition came in Third behind The Wild Hogs with $18,000,000 coming in first is 300

1	300 Warner Bros. 3,270	$10,000,000 +83.5% / $3,058 $106,288,000 / 8	$12,400,000 +24% / $3,792 $118,688,000 / 9	$8,800,000 -29% / $2,691 $127,473,000 / 10	N/A
2	WILD HOGS Buena Vista 3,360	$5,511,000 +160.4% / $1,640 $90,679,000 / 15	$8,607,000 +56.2% / $2,562 $99,286,000 / 16	$4,707,000 -45.3% / $1,401 $103,993,000 / 17	N/A
3	PREMONITION Sony / Columbia 2,831	$6,400,000 -- / $2,261 $6,400,000 / 1	$7,175,000 +12.1% / $2,534 $13,575,000 / 2	$4,425,000 -38.3% / $1,563 $18,000,000 / 3	N/A

She was very good in Crash, and some idiot says she picks bad movies like Crash. Hello, it won Best Picture! I don't think McMahon will win Worst Supporting Actor because he's not that bad in Fantastic Four, nor will he be in the sequel.

For the user who questioned about other "Premonition" films, they are actually a trilogy BASED on premonition. They are part of the Final Destination franchise. They are actually smart horror movies with GREAT, let me repeat, great and original kills. The beginning of each movie always starts with a premonition by the main character (having a foreseeing of a deadly accident) which makes him/her carry other people out. They finally see the premonition comes true and the survivors start dying one by one in grisly (mostly gory) ways. As you have read, I'm a HUGE Final Destination fan and they're really smart horror movies (3rd was the worst). It's kinda hard to understand because there are these rules and death things you have to understand.

Response from Head RAZZberry: While your defense of the Final Destination / Premonition trilogy is spirited, your comment that CRASH winning Best Picture somehow automatically anoints it as a great film is somewhat naive. Numerous times (especially in the last 30 years) the Academy has failed to name the year's actual BEST Picture as their winner. A perfect case in point: The nominees for Best Picture of 1976 included ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, NETWORK and TAXI DRIVER -- any one of which film historians would rank as greater films than that year's Best Picture Oscar winner, ROCKY. While the original ROCKY is the best thing Stallone ever did, it was obviously a sentimental choice, and over the years has not retained the status of any of the three far superior competitors it won over...

I read one review on IMDb that said the Bullock was good, but Julian McMahon (a.k.a. Dr. Doom), who plays Bullock's husband, was terrible.

McMahon could be on the ballot this year for worst supporting actor for both this movie and The Fantastic Four 2, because acording to IMDb, his characters is coming back.

I know that she has been in some terrible movies, but just because the movie is terrible doesn't mean she is terrible in it. I got the impression from the HeadRAZZ that for Bullock: bad movie=bad performance, but I could be totally wrong.

Here is a link to an article in my local newspaper about how Bullock is often very good even when he vehicle is not: www.accessatlanta.com/movies/content/movies/stories/2007/03/ 15/0316MMbullock.html

Response from Head RAZZberry: My point in the previous posting, which may not have been clear, is that without Sandra Bullock agreeing to star in it, something like PREMONITION would never have been made. And if the script -- which almost every review has pointed to as one of the film's major flaws -- stinks, then Bullock signing on to star in it -- and thus, in a sense, "causing it to be made" -- deserves some a fair share of the blame...