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ReelViews
The star and the more overwrought aspects of the plot are mainstream but the philosophical implications will not appeal to those who prefer easily digestible cinematic portions. It's also true that the more deeply one considers the movie's themes and structure, the less sense it makes.
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Variety
This slick exercise about a housewife whose spouse might or might not be dead is effective until a downright maudlin close.
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Chicago Tribune
As Premonition zigzags toward its solution it loses its head completely, packing a risible final reel with left-field religious disquisitions and heartfelt warnings against infidelity.
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
Had it been easier to comprehend at the beginning, there's no telling how bad Premonition might have been.
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Christian Science Monitor
At times, Bullock seems as confused by the plot as we are. Even if you cut the writer Bill Kelly and the director Mennan Yapo a lot of slack, there are plot holes galore. May I suggest that it's time to declare a moratorium on movies about time?
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USA Today
Premonition is both dreary and absurd, suffering from a lack of intrinsic logic and terrible pacing, a one-two punch that kills off any chance of entertainment value.
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Chicago Reader
With her tetchy screen persona, Sandra Bullock is well served by brainteasers like "The Lake House" and this passable thriller about a woman who seems to be bouncing between two alternate realities.
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Baltimore Sun
Bullock is so good, working hard to pull off the transition from grief-stricken wife and mother to reluctant time traveler, you want to pull for her. So it's possible - not easy, but possible - to overlook the script's inconsistencies.
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San Francisco Chronicle
A supernatural thriller that keeps your attention while failing to hold you in its grip.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Once Bullock's character clears her head at the top of the thrill ride, Premonition becomes inescapably dull because it is her mental health, not her purposefully dull husband's fate, that interested us.
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Miami Herald
Premonition is actually more daring than you might expect. Not bold enough to be memorable, maybe, but just enough to keep you from falling asleep in front of the TV.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Premonition is an odd little thing, with a protagonist in a protracted fugue state and a plot that doesn't know whether its coming or going. Or maybe it does.
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Entertainment Weekly
One piece of advice in trying to make sense of it all: Follow the sleepwear, since Bullock cycles through a few garments that clarify which day is which. Another suggestion? Ignore the two-bit psychological and spiritual doggerel with which screenwriter Bill Kelly tries to deepen the meaning of the game.
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Washington Post
Sandra Bullock is a disheveled, grumpy, adorable mess in Premonition, a psychological thriller that was no doubt pitched as "Medium," only longer and brunette. Or maybe "The Eternal Sixth Sense of the Spotless Groundhog Day."
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Village Voice
Nathan Lee
Had the film maintained a tone of kooky, Kafkaesque tragicomedy, narrowing in on Linda's wacko wrestling match with the laws of physics, we might really have had something here.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The usually likable Bullock, obstructed by glaring continuity problems and often baffling character motivation, comes across as unsympathetically dazed and confused here, giving the viewer little reason to care about this desperate housewife's puzzling predicament.
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Salon.com
Premonition doesn't know when to stop. The picture can't decide between cheap scares or deep thoughts, so it goes for both.
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New York Daily News
We never get a sensible explanation for Linda's bizarre double life, or uncover any reason - any reason at all - why Bullock would pick this lazy, patchwork script out of all the ones she surely receives every year.
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New York Post
When you awake, it may all seem like a bad dream - but why is your wallet missing $11? Scary.
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The New Yorker
Although Premonition is not a frightening movie, it is aimed squarely at an audience of frightened souls.
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LA Weekly
They only want us to play that tiresome guessing game: Is it all a dream or is it really happening? Instead, you may find yourself asking: Is this cinema or merely Cinemax?
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The New York Times
The sloppy, absent-minded Premonition is a giant step backward for Ms. Bullock.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
This is a much dumber movie than "The Lake House." In fact, the script is an ungainly mess and ultimately a shaggy-dog story.
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TV Guide
The script's vague, silly "explanation" for Linda's experiences -- nature abhors a spiritual vacuum, so weird stuff happens to the faithless -- is the icing on the irritation cake.
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Premiere
The pumped up sound effects play like an overplayed laugh track on a sitcom that just isn't funny and only draws more attention how ineffective the filmmaking is.
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Boston Globe
It's a movie only a psychic could love, since a psychic would know to stay home or see "Zodiac" instead.
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Austin Chronicle
If only Bullock could have foreseen how bad Premonition would turn out to be, she would have spared herself (and us) a lot of agony.
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Los Angeles Times
Its biggest failing -- and the ultimate one for a lightweight entertainment such as this -- is that it's a deadly bore from start to finish.
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Wall Street Journal
Pay real money to see this feeble fiasco only if you're in the mood for "Groundhog Day" without the laughs.
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Rolling Stone
The real horror here is watching Sandra Bullock drop her big Miss Congeniality smile to A-C-T! She does this by not smiling. What happened to the range she showed in "Crash" and "Infamous?"
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