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Review: Premonition
By The Apostle | August 28, 2007
Just got around to watching Premonition starring Sandra Bullock with my wife. In short, one of the most disappointing movies I’ve seen..ever.
I had high hopes for this movie; had it been a summer blockbuster action movie or a kids movie I would have looked past the script problems and attempt to throw a thought-provoking moral in at the last 30 minutes of the film. There was a great concept, a great cast, and admittedly great work throughout most of the movie.
For comparison, the other movies I consider great disappointments are Pirates of the Carribean 2: Dead Man’s Chest (I was one of many that did not know it was just a trailer for the third movie, and VGcats captured my sentiments and emotions well) and Superman Returns (not sure what storyline they were using, but it didn’t draw from the comics, the other movies, or anything. It was like watching a sequel to a Superman movie that had never been made, and very much wishing you had watched them in order.)
What was wrong with Premonition? The biggest obstacle to my enjoyment was the biggest, most amateurish continuity issue I’ve ever seen. In many movies, there might be a bandage that in one scene is on an actor’s right side of his face, but in the next it’s on his left. It happens. In Premonition, a little girl get badly hurt and scarred on Tuesday, still has those scars on Wednesday, is miraculously untouched on Thursday, but scarred again on Friday and Saturday. How the heck do you miss continuity on a major plot point like that?
But to partially redeem the movie, there is an important point made (perhaps too late in the plot) about nature abhorring a vacuum – even a spiritual one. It is made clear that belief does not have to be in God, it can be in anything – even hope and love. Loss of even that belief can lead to disaster.
For Church of Man readers, the lesson is twofold: Don’t think that belief has to be in a deity, and don’t try to live life without faith or belief is something. What then should we believe? Let’s figure that out…
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