Premonition

For as long as the ground shifts under Bullock's feet, Premonition sustains a low level of intrigue, but once the confusion ends, the stitched-together plot falls apart at the seams. As the film opens, Bullock's marriage to banker Julian McMahon has lost much of its spark, though she's gamely holding down the house with their two young girls. One afternoon, a police officer arrives with the grave news that McMahon has died in a car accident. And yet the very next morning, Bullock awakes to find him alive and well in their kitchen, sipping a cup of coffee. The day after that, he's dead again, and a crowd of mourners has gathered, including Amber Valletta, a co-worker with whom McMahon may have had an affair. Eventually, Bullock realizes that McMahon's death was a premonition, and she attempts to keep the tragedy from happening.

Basically, Bullock takes the long route toward understanding what Masi Oka discovered on the TV show Heroes: Having the ability to know the future doesn't necessarily make changing it any easier. Except that Oka can zip around in space and time at will, while Bullock's superpower appears to be the ability to keep her hubby from sleeping around. The first half of Premonition creates the illusion of a challenging movie simply by being confusing and disorienting, and exploring Bullock's nightmarish scenario of not knowing whether to grieve. But the clearer her situation becomes, the more the ground opens up beneath the film, allowing it to fall through its own plot holes. Had it been easier to comprehend at the beginning, there's no telling how bad Premonition might have been.