Movie Review -- PREMONITION -- with Sandra Bullock
DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DON"T WANT TO KNOW THE ENDING.
Stop -- I'm serious -- I can't rant about this, if I have to hold back.
Good -- you're still with me.
I see a plot hole
A plot hole I see
Would you like your heart ripped out, thrown on the floor and have to watch a random teen Dance Dance Revolution all over it? Or maybe you'd prefer to have a rusty tie rod shoved through your chest.
Well, then go rent PREMONITION with Sandra Bullock (ooh I want to slap her silly for making this film)
Hey don't get me wrong -- I LOVED this film up until the last 5 minutes when the WRITERS screwed up royally
yes, the writers
They created a PLOT hOLE you could drive a tanker truck through -- which is what they did, BTW.
-- this is your last warning -- do not read if you don't like spoilers cause this is the big one.
PLOT SUMMARY
Sandra and her new hubby, Dr Doom (yeah, the evil supervillian from Fantastic Four-- and I'll tell you he plays an okay guy -- hard to believe) buy a new house and we fast forward to two kids and a mortgage and the day she gets a visit from the sherrif telling her - gasp- her husband was killed YESTERDAY (remember this -- it's IMPORTANT -- there'll be a test later) by a TANKER truck (TANKER!)
Ooh sad sad tell the kids cry go to sleep ON COUCH hugging photo
wake up -- in her own bed??-- hubby is alive and eating breakfast -- Okay. I got it -- cool Tarantino/throwallthescenesintheairandplaythemwheretheyland gambit.
But wait -- there's more
As she bounces back and forth IN TIME in the week before and just after he dies, she REMEMBERS STUFF ( like Groundhog Day, but without the fun)
and she CHANGES HISTORY (remember this -- it could get you an A)
Eventually, she ends up ON THE ROAD HE IS TO BE KILLED ON -- on the cell phone!! SCREAMING instructions to try to save him.
Great eh?
NO -- HE DIES !!!!
Oh, and HOW IRONIC (as they used to say in the comics) she CAUSED IT
BY BEING THERE
ON THE PHONE
TALKI--
wait -- something's wrong, I think, brow furrowed
Beside the fact that I'm ready to throw the dog at the TV (don't worry -- it's plush -- the dog, not the TV) this plot has a major PARADOX in it
Quick -- cover the bottom half of this note with your hand so you can't read the answer and try to figure it out with your friends
oh -- I forgot, you're reading this cause you're alone and bored
anyway
The only reason the tanker truck braked, jack-knifed, and then exploded after running over his car (could he be more horribly dead in front of her eyes in the last five nminutes?) was that Sandra caused him to be in the wrong lane by telling him to turn around on her cell phone AS SHE WATCHED!
When Hubby Dr Doom died in the original history,
Sandra didn't find out till THE NEXT DAY -- she was never there!
Therefore he would not be in the accident --There would BE NO accident.
Total screwup writer-guys --WERE YOU ALL ASLEEP IN THE STORY MEETINGS?? NOT ENOUGH DOUBLE LATTES TO KEEP YOU SHARP!!!???
I am so angry right now, I 'm going to go play Oblivion and kill a bunch of innocent civilians while in chameleon mode.
And then steal all their stuff
And sell it
and buy more stuff