PREMONITION-2007-2 STARS

Oh oh, warning, warning, housewife gone nuts!!! This is a movie about an ordinary woman with an ordinary life. As a result, her mind got bored and said, “Okay, we need to shake this place up!” Then Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) starts having disturbing dreams about her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) dying in a car crash, and events that lead up to it.

In the first dream, a cop (Marc Macaulay) visits Linda, and lets her know her husband was in a car accident, and died as a result. She starts making funeral arrangements, blah blah blah, then she wakes up, and realizes that her husband is downstairs, eating breakfast, very much alive. Okay, so she’s still freaking out at this point, but she tries to snap out of it long enough to take the kids to school.

Out on the road she ends up being one of those drivers that you don’t want to be in front of, or in back of, and an officer decides to pay her a visit while she’s still behind the wheel. Well what do you know, its officer Reilly, the cop in her dreams! Linda’s world proceeds to turn upside down as her dreams continue to direct what will eventually happen to her in the waking world. Dreams of a wake, pills in the sink, and a trip to the crazy house.

After a while, you won’t be able to distinguish the dreams from her real life, and that is what draws you into this movie. Then there’s this boring scenario where Jim almost cheats on her, but doesn’t go through with it, and this confuses me. Linda has a dream that he almost cheats, but doesn’t, and yet she feels that gives her a reason to go and visit the lady’s house? What’s funny is the lady admits it! Now how does this sound? “Well its true, your husband almost cheated with me, but decided not too so just go home and pretend everything is okay!” A person can still get their head chopped of for something like that!

I personally feel that the affair should have occurred. C’mon now, what’s a movie without a tiny bit of cheating in it? They could have expanded the storyline up a little more to have included a fling or two. I mean, the guy increased the amount on his insurance policy, so if there is the slightest doubt that he will soon meet his maker, why not have some fun?

It’s nice to watch people go nuts on the big screen, but I don’t think premonitions are really that detailed, and precise as they are portrayed in this movie. After all, the events Linda dreamt about came true for her, all except the one where she appeared in the straight jacket. Why didn’t that premonition come true? Add a little comedy to the movie for goodness sake!

I actually believe in premonitions, and I’m going to share one with you because I like you so much. I keep having the lotto dream, but something different happens every time that I win. In the last dream, I won and was really excited about it, but then my ticket disintegrated. Now what am I supposed to think about that?

Anyway, back to my opinion of this movie-it was OK. Not the best, or the worst, somewhere in the middle, so if you have an extra dollar to spare, sure, go rent it, but don’t expect it to be one of the best movies you’ve ever seen, but then again…………………….

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