Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here. My wife reeeeeeeeeeeeeally wants to see this movie. One would suppose this is not prime fanboy fodder, and that they’re probably anticipating this about as much as they were THE LAKE HOUSE. Let’s see what a German reader had to say about it.
Hi there. I work at a German dubbing facility and just last week we recieved a print of a new Sandra Bullock film called "Premonition". I hadn't heard of it since so I watched without expecting anything and I must say though it wasn't great cinema it thoroughly entertained me for nearly two hours. The story centers around Bullock who is unhappily married with two children. She and her husband have become rather estranged and he is about to go into an affair. When Bullock wakes up one morning a police officer announces that her husband had died in a car accident. The next day, when she wakes up however he is very much alive again. From this point on Sandra Bullock's charackter starts shifting through time as soon as she goes to sleep. She jumps around the whole week where her husband dies and a series of other unfortunate events occur. The audience is challenged to follow the compicately woven plot which unfolds completely out of sync. Imagine a cross between "Memento" and "Groundhog Day". And that is a whole lot of fun! The only thing that keeps this from being a great movie ist that there is no real resolution at the end. We never get what is even a glimps at what could be an explanation for these admittedly strange events. I wouldn't want a Star-Trek-rift- in-subspace-explanation but at least Bullock's charakter should have wondered a little more about the wondrous thing that time travel is. It boils down to a study of 'does fate exist' and how can we see what is supposed to happen. The ending has this wonderfully noble "Butterfly"-ending quality to it (I mean the theatrical ending, not the director's cut). All turns out well; not sweet-well but sacrifice-well. The acting is fairly good and there is a wonderful guest-bis by the great Peter Stormare (who involves a HUGE plothole on Saturday night). The film has no real special effects save one sequence at the very end. But that's a goof thing because it keeps the story like it should be: up close and personal. The mentioned FX are great although the overall timing of that sequence is rather uncredible. So all in all - not a film to really remember (all been there and better) but two hours of solid saturday-night-entertainment. Go see it if you want to have fun and a little to do for your brain. You can call me "guy in the phonebooth", if you're going to use this.
