Dan’s DVDS

Orange Wednesdays are great, two tickets to see a film for a fiver, bargain. But after going to see Premonition last night I feel like I was ripped off. I had the chance of seeing Norbit, 23, or Premonition and we decided to go for Premonition as we had heard bad things about the previuos two so we thought Premonition would be a safe bet. Well now get ready to hear bad things about Premonition.

The story is about a woman (Sandra Bullock) who wakes up one day to find her husband has been killed in a car accident. Then she wakes up the next day and he’s alive. And then he’s dead again. We later find out that her days have been mixed up and they are a premonition of events leading to something happening on Wednesday, when her husband would have the accident. How we the audience are supposed to work this out is beyond me. The film offers no explanation or an attempt at one.

It also doesn’t explain crucially, why she wakes up and its a different day, the film makes no sense. If it is a premonition it makes no sense beacuse it is a series of premonitions and the film makes no effort to explore these supernatural events. The film moves incredibly slowly especially the first 20 minutes where I could feel myself getting aggravated already. By the end I was falling asleep.

 I’d say it was the worst film I have had the misfortune to see this year, which is strange as I had a Premonition it maight be half decent. I would guess the cinema-goers around me felt exactly the same. The whole cinema would groan everytime Sandra Bullock’s character would wake up for the billionth time on a different day with no explanation. “Not again” I heard someone say.

Without giving away the eventual plot, all I can say is the final scenes are a total letdown and rendered the film completely pointless. This could have been made into a half decent film if it had turned out that her husband was in fact playing with her mind, but his one-dimensional character was plain for all to see.

Do yourself a favour a miss out on this one. 1/5

feel free to comment espcially if you think this film was great!