Dir: Mennan Yapo With: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Kate Nelligan, Peter Stormare
This initially intriguing psychological/paranormal thriller begins with happily married housewife and mother of two baby girls Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) awaking from a nightmare in which her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) is killed in an horrific automobile accident, only to find that the events she dreamed indeed came true. Or rather, they're about to come true.
Over the course of a week Linda experiences more disturbing dreams and slowly comes to the conclusion that what she's actually experiencing are premonitions of an imminent catastrophe. But just as she determines to take action to prevent the accident, Linda discovers Jim is planning an affair with a work colleague, and she starts to wonder whether it would be best for her and the children to let the would-be adulterer die.
So far, so interesting, but once Linda begins to wrestle with her conscience the film goes off the rails. The cleverly plotted elisions between Linda's premonitions and the fateful course of events unfolding before her are replaced with theological bunkum about the faithless in our increasingly seclular world being susceptible to fearful visions of the future.
Which is a shame, because Turkish-German director Mennan Yapo keeps things pleasingly understated for the most part, while Bullock gives a nicely reigned-in performance.
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