Nothing to Crow About...

WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS

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).

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+ !!!

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