There's actually a lot to like about this movie. Sandra Bullock gives a really good performance as usual, first as the desperate housewife who becomes even more desperate as her world starts falling apart around her. One day, she learns that her husband is dead, and she numbly goes through the motions of making funeral arrangements, telling her children, and trying not to fall apart. The next day when she wakes up, her husband is still alive. Thus goes the pattern, with her moving back and forth through time. And herein lies the problem. A "premonition" (at least according to Webster's dictionary) is "a previous notice or warning, the anticipation of an event without conscious reason." Nowhere in that definition does it say one who has a premonition rockets back and forth through time. The character isn't really having a premonition about future events, she's time traveling, and doing a crappy job of it. More about that later.

Julian Sands does a great job in his maybe twenty minutes of combined screentime playing the husband. His character is so underused that we never get a sense of what the marriage is actually like until later in the movie, and when the revelation comes, it seems to come out of nowhere. Events that are supposed to be foreshadowing some kind of doom, like the appearance of creepy black crows that die in bloody ways are a tad redundant by the time they show up, since we already know that something bad is going to happen (we've been to the future, remember?) but they might provide some jump scares.

Characters who travel into the past usually learn some lesson and try to apply that to change the course of the future. In this case, the wife does every single thing she can think of to ensure that the future will be ruined. She's a raving lunatic who screams and acts totally insane, and while we sympathize with her plight, it's hard not to want to smack her with a brick as she proves herself in need of hospitalization.

I won't spoil them here, but let me provide an example. If you had a premonition that your husband was going to drown, would you jump into the water with him? Or if you thought he was going to die in a freak skydiving accident and you supposedly wanted to stop that from happening, would you go skydiving with him? It's almost as if this character wants her husband to die and that's why she does such a shitty job of keeping him out of harm's way. And then, let's all hold hands and sing Kumbaya around the campfire in the single most smarmy, insulting conclusion I've ever seen to a movie. Are you KIDDING me? I paid MONEY to see this?

It seems as though it's leading somewhere when it isn't. The whole movie seems to be building up toward a premise that never arises, and the audience is left feeling cheated. The acting is great, but it's not enough to save the movie. Before I sat down in the theater, I had a feeling this movie would suck. I should have listened to that.

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