As was made evident via the Shoutbox, I watched Premonition recently. Nothing to write home about, for sure. Some review said it epitomises ‘what’s awful about the time-bending subgenre’, but didn’t elaborate. I think to me the issue with such films is that we know from the start
I’m also wondering whether the genre really is hopeless in that sense - can you ever have an actual plot hook with time travel, or will it always be a mere gimmick, as with Tenet?
WARNING: spoilers below
that the husband dies, and die he does, so there’s absolutely nothing that we learn from the whole thing. I do think that the take on the trope where someone does upset the space-time continuum and the world doesn’t end but changes irreversibly, e.g. The Butterfly Effect is at least a bit less hopeless.
Last edited by AgrippinaX; 06-23-21 at 02:33 PM.