I was watching Speed (1994) the other day, and it reminded me how much I liked Sandra Bullock.
So it seemed natural to want to rent her latest thriller, Premonition (2007).
It's a non-stop roller coaster ride that will take your hope away.
I'll try to summarize the plot, but I don't think I can do it objectively. If you'd really like to learn about this movie, go here.
Are you still here?
Good. This movie blew. Here's how it went:
Sandra Bullock wakes up and she's happy. Her husband dies. She cries herself to sleep, but when she wakes up, her husband is alive again. She cries again. She looks frightened, then confused, and then distraught (Yes, that facial expression conveyed just about everything but happy; for that, she just smiled).
She has emotional outbursts. Then she buckles down and figures out that she's experiencing her week out of sequence. Did I mention emotional outbursts?
And just when you think it's about to get melodramatic, it gets stupid.
A priest tells her something about God having a purpose for her, I think. Or maybe he was trying to get her to drink communion wine. I don't know - it was near the end of the movie and I think I had started talking on the cell phone and cooking. I returned to watch the surprise ending, hoping that it would all come together in a beautiful and insightful way.
And it didn't disappoint: It made me realize that Sandra Bullock isn't attractive to me anymore - and that's depressing.
Oh well. Every time I start feeling sorry for myself, I try to remember that my day could have been worse.
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