PREMONITION (2007)

Title: Premonition

Director: Mennan Yapo
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon
Length: 110 mins.








You'll be forgiven if about halfway through this movie you start to feel like you're watching something that has borrowed heavily from Memento (2000). Sandra Bullock's Linda is a stay-at-home mother of two young girls with a distant workaholic husband. Unlike in Memento, it's never really explained why Linda is living her life out of order. Suffice to say, it's a cinematic trick that feels poorly employed and certainly better used elsewhere. Bullock brings her usual adequate skills and even in a film where she spends most of her screen time crying or looking worried, she's still as charming as we expect her to be.
Julian McMahon of the Nip/Tuck and Fantastic Four franchises is quite the opposite. He's both cold and wooden and even when the film's conflict seems to be resolved, we don't really care enough to give a hoot what happens to him. Too little, too late.
The always wonderful Peter Stormare shows up as a psychologist and is vastly underused but still a credit to the film's casting department.
Premonition is a decent Sunday night rental, but no more and no less.