December 15, 2007
Premonition
If you've seen the trailer for this movie, you've pretty much seen all of this film. Halfway through Premonition, we finally got to the point where I turned to Dave and said, "Now we're taking up where the preview left off. Can't wait to see how this turns out."
But nothing turned out. Nothing new happened, nothing changed, except for a vaguely unsettling discussion with a priest which seemed to say all of the answers were with faith. Which was not strange in itself, except that the question of faith is never brought up before this point in the movie. This is deus ex machina at it's worst -- because though hearts and minds have changed, the future does not. We also never learn why these supernatural events take place at all. No payoff for the patient viewer.
Consistency nitpick: In one flash-forward Linda's family demand to know how her daughter's face was cut. There seems to be no record of what happened. When we finally get to the injury itself (in the past) not only were ER staff taking records, her husband was in attendance as well. Surely he would have mentioned it to someone. Or the psychiatrist would have checked with local hospitals. Why would no one else know what had happened?
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