Why is Sandra Bullock squandering her talent in such 'œan incoherent, unoriginal psychological thriller'? said Claudia Puig in USA Today. Its plot, a scrambled version of such time-bending dramas as Memento and Déjà Vu, falls apart upon close scrutiny. Bullock plays Linda, a housewife who receives news that her husband (Julian McMahon) has been killed in a car accident. She wakes the next day to find him alive and well, but the following day she is told, once again, that he's dead. As Linda attempts to make sense of her apparent time travel, her family believes she has gone mad. 'œIt's like watching a depressive remake of Groundhog Day,' said Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune. No logic can connect the pieces of this undercooked story line. Attention jumps from Linda's state of mind to her husband's apparent cheating to a scenario of possible murder by inaction. Then, 'œas Premonition zigzags toward its solution, it loses its head completely.' The supposed answer to this riddle turns out to be more confusing than its premise. Bullock just can't seem to say no to dopey scripts, said Joe Morgenstern in The Wall Street Journal. Premonition is Bullock's second idiotic time-travel drama in a year, following The Lake House. 'œWhy would an actress who can act as well as she did in Infamous (as Nelle Harper Lee) fall twice for dramatic equivalents of droopy Dalà clocks?'
Rating: PG-13
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