PREMONITION
Psychosomatic Hunch
By Vishal Verma

Rating:- * *

What is it?
Sandra’s rendezvous with time and destiny is somewhat akin to the award winners ‘Back to the future’ The Time Machine’ and ‘Memento’ where the protagonist travels between the past and future along with the narrative. But who’s complaining?

Director Mennan Yapo latest offering ‘PREMONITION’ a psychological thriller though is gripping to quite an extant, but there’s one hitch and sorry to say a major flaw, the end is unconvincing and gives confusing signals in the end.

A perfect example of an exciting build up ending up with a damp flip. What could have been an engrossing psychological thriller eventually turns out to be an above average thrill flick minus omens of any nature.

Whats it all about?
Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she receives the devastating news that her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning, she finds him having coffee in the kitchen. She assumes it was all a dream, but is shaken by how vivid it felt. She soon realizes it wasn't a dream and the next day finds her sweetie lying besides her in the bed. She encounters people who she have never met but they know her, her world is turned upside down as the surreal circumstances lead her to discover that her perfect life may not have been all that it appeared. Desperate to save her family, Linda begins a furious race against time and fate to try and preserve everything that she and Jim have built together.

What to look out for?
A well build up edge of the seat narrative to some extant is the foremost think to look out for. After Speed, Crash and Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullock yet again excels in the role of a women trapped between time and destiny. Particularly in the scene where she spots scars on her daughter’s face and later on when she notices her daughter’s clean beautiful face is done with perfection. Infact, she really lifts up those scenes with her sheer acting talent, which otherwise could have been ordinary.  

What Not?
Why screw a well build up narrative into an unconvincing silly climax in the end is hard to understand. The angle of the priest and his philosophical talks are uncalled for.  It is disappointing to see an underrated Julian McMahon after watching him in Fantastic Four. 

Conclusion : PREMONITION may find patronage among those cinegoers who have not watched ‘Back To The Future, The Time Machine, Memento or any such type of a flick.

Those who will go for a spine chilling thriller will be disappointed, cause this psychological thriller is minus omens of any nature.

But, it’s surely a ticket for psychological thriller buffs, a lesser known phenomenon in Bollywood.