Premonition: Or Why You Should Go See Another Faux-Thriller Instead of This One

Premonition. A film by Mennan Yapo with Sandra Bullock & Julian McMahon opens today (August 29) in theaters throughout Paris.


Following the success of the Oscar winning ensemble film, "Crash" Sandra Bullock tries to strut her dramatic muscles in "Premonition. Unfortunately, this tale of a flat affect wife and mother piecing together the mystery of her husband's death fails in the overall film plot and lack of that chilly climax which is evident in thrillers of the same genre.

Sandra Bullock stars in the so-called thriller helmed by German director, Mennan Yapo, as a housewife who tries to trace the events preceding and aftermaths of the death of her husband Jim (Julian McMahon of Nip/Tuck). After a local police officer announces the death of her husband to Linda (Sandra Bullock), she begins to go down a long spiral of perceived hallucinations and depression.

The screenplay by Bill Kelly provides an abundance of foreshadowing and possible symbolisms that lead audience to a climax, which…well never really successfully happens. This whirlwind of a feature so deeply makes its descent into the religious supernatural genre, and although this film is not a direct remake of the Japanese film of the same translation, it is almost unfortunate in the current American trend of readapting Japanese thrillers which deal with the mother-child dynamic and thrilling climaxes (The Ring, Dark Water) which this film so sorely lacks.

Credits go to Sandra Bullock for dealing with such an optimistic, yet dismal screenplay and poor direction by Yapo. Do us a favor next time, when you start seeing things, remind us that we should stop taking our daily anti-depressants because I was under the illusion that I was hallucinating through this terrible, anti-climatic film.