In a month the place Netflix gave us one among its worst movies but in the Russo Brothers’ slick however empty “The Electrical State,” and one among its greatest collection ever in “Adolescence,” Hulu has been quietly proving its price as a substitute streaming platform. 2025’s Greatest Image winner, “Anora” dominated the Hulu charts upon its mid-March launch, adopted by Invoice Burr’s glorious new standup particular, which equally rose to primary in latest weeks. However that is nonetheless the streaming sphere, which implies you are by no means far-off from a very wretched film one way or the other managing to rise from the muck and attain incomprehensible success.
Enter: “Premonition” — a 2007 psychological thriller starring Sandra Bullock as a housewife whose husband might or is probably not lifeless. Now, we have seen some actual stinkers dominating streaming charts this yr. For instance, Prime Video had a fairly egregious February with Zach Galifianakis and Owen Wilson’s “Are You Right here” hitting the charts regardless of a depressing 8% Rotten Tomatoes rating. It adopted a equally disheartening January which noticed a devastatingly generic Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon rom-com high the Prime Video rankings.
Now, although, Hulu has outdone its rival on this moderately unlucky class of abysmal chart-toppers, as “Premonition” is at the moment having a second on the streamer’s rankings, and simply when the corporate was doing so properly.
No one might have foreseen Premonition’s Hulu success
“Premonition” really did okay on the field workplace upon its authentic 2007 launch, making $84.1 million on a $20,000 finances. Sadly, critics weren’t having any of it. The film was derided for a nonsensical, disorienting plot that noticed Sandra Bullock’s Linda Hanson jolting forwards and backwards between timelines, one among which performed out within the aftermath of her husband’s demise whereas within the different he was completely positive. Helmed by German director Mennan Yapo, the movie tried to take advantage of this non-chronological timeline, presumably in an try and do what Christopher Nolan did together with his complicated however sensible “Memento” seven years prior. Sadly, it fell in need of that significantly excessive mark, leading to a film that left virtually each single critics upset with Linda’s makes an attempt to avoid wasting her husband from his impending doom — or moderately his former doom. It is all a bit complicated, and ends with some type of heavy promotion of spiritual perception as a salve for marital impropriety. The movie additionally contains a full-on coffin flop, which for many who have not seen the funniest “I Assume You Ought to Go away” sketch may really be a purpose to observe “Premonition.”
Not that Hulu subscribers want one. The film simply made an look on the streamer’s charts, elevating the identical query many critics had after viewing “Premonition:” What in God’s title is occurring? Based on streaming viewership tracker FlixPatrol, “Premonition” hit quantity seven on Hulu’s United States charts on March 24, 2025 after being added to the service on March 15. It appears this can be a case of subscribers merely seeing a brand new film within the “Newly Added” class and giving it a go, which is the one clarification that is smart given the movie’s notoriously unhealthy essential appraisal.
Must you watch Premonition?
“Premonition” was Mennan Yapo’s Hollywood directing debut, and in keeping with his filmography, additionally his farewell to Hollywood. In reality, it was his farewell to directing, as his filmography lists no different tasks after “Premonition,” although Yapo has continued to work as a producer. Contemplating the essential drubbing that this film obtained, it is not all that shocking to study that Yapo did not direct one other Hollywood film afterwards. However no movies in any respect? How unhealthy might it have been?
Very. An $84 million field workplace take is not too unhealthy for a movie that Peter Travers’ Rolling Stone overview summed up thusly: “I’ve a premonition you will not give a rattling. I certain as hell did not.” Writing for the Los Angeles Occasions, Kevin Crust labeled the film, “a lethal bore from begin to end,” including, “Much more annoying is its blind-alley construction leading to an unsatisfying thoughts sport for the viewers.” Sifting by all of the predictable clairvoyance puns and sneers, critics usually appeared to be unimpressed with the convoluted plot and lack of a satisfying payoff.
All of which makes it no clearer as to why this movie is charting on Hulu. The one factor left to do is watch “Premonition” to see in the event you can determine it out, however to be completely clear, I’m certainly not recommending such a factor. As a substitute, Hulu additionally has top-of-the-line sci-fi thrillers you are not watching, so why not give {that a} go as an alternative — or rewatch Coffin Flop, which they’re saying shouldn’t be a present…
