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Sandra Bullock in another time-space travel movie, gee that's new. . . Maybe she had an obsession with Back to the Future and is trying to create her own classic. Sandra, it's definitely not working. Premonition takes a creative concept and regurgitates it onto the big screen as a terrible excuse for sophisticated screenwriting.

I guess I can't blame Sandra too much. The story probably looked much better on paper. Linda Hanson, played by Bullock, has a freaky Friday moment when she was told that her husband had been killed in a car crash only to find her husband eating his cereal, alive and well, on the kitchen counter the following morning. Of course, like any normal human being, she thought it was a dream. But throughout the remainder of the week she begins to realize that this is her life . . . just out of order.

The downfall of this movie isn't its concept, it's the delivery. The audience gets that Linda and Jim (aka Lazarus) weren't a happy couple, so you'd think that the issues between them would be resolved in a powerful way by the end . . . you'd think. Basically, this film features Sandra Bullock running around town like that chicken from Babel (you know, the one without its head), and the whole time I'm hoping that this film will finally just pull itself together. What the heck is her problem? Get with it man, your husband is about to die! Come up with a plan! Beat the space time continuum! But ::gasp::

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he actually does die moron, because you did everything that the future said you would do! And what about the priest? Here was the perfect vessel of wisdom. I know you were trying real hard to be creative there screenwriters, but obviously it still didn't make the point. "Its never too late to fight for what you love." They even repeat these words at the end of the movie . . . so apparently they're suppose to be important, and yet, Jim still dies. Why? Because of Linda . . . she fought for what she loved, but by doing that, she is the reason for his death. What the heck kind of message was that?

Other than tha abomination, there were other terrible holes in the plot. Why did Linda's daughter need to get cuts all over her face (not to mention the cuts occurred on the 'wrong day')? Why was any of it necessary? I guess so that Linda's mother would have an excuse to send her to the mental institution, but that wasn't necessary either. The mental institution happened at the end of her freaky Friday week, but at the end of the film, Linda is perfectly happy at home 6-8 months later. Did something change in the space time continuum? If so, why didn't it affect Jim's death? I don't know, bad writing?

Stuff like this drives me crazy. If you're going to do a movie that involves time and space, you have to be meticulous! The daughter's cuts can't happen on Tuesday but not be there on Thursday when Linda is putting stickers on the new glass window. Even Bill and Tedd did it right.

I think this movie wasn't a complete waste of my time. In Jim's imminent death, Linda was able to realize that she did still love her husband. It was kinda cool to see things unfold, even if I was disappointed. So if you see it, I don't blame you. Just don't get your hopes up for a mind blowing experience.