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 value instead 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 current weeks. However that is nonetheless the streaming sphere, which implies you are by no means far-off from a really wretched film someway 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 will not be useless. Now, we have seen some actual stinkers dominating streaming charts this 12 months. 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 prime the Prime Video rankings.
Now, although, Hulu has outdone its rival on this somewhat unlucky class of abysmal chart-toppers, as “Premonition” is at present having a second on the streamer’s rankings, and simply when the corporate was doing so nicely.
No one may have foreseen Premonition’s Hulu success
“Premonition” really did okay on the field workplace upon its unique 2007 launch, making $84.1 million on a $20,000 funds. 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 backwards and forwards between timelines, one among which performed out within the aftermath of her husband’s loss of life whereas within the different he was completely nice. Helmed by German director Mennan Yapo, the movie tried to benefit from this non-chronological timeline, presumably in an try and do what Christopher Nolan did together with his complicated however good “Memento” seven years prior. Sadly, it fell wanting that significantly excessive mark, leading to a film that left virtually each single critics upset with Linda’s makes an attempt to save lots of her husband from his impending doom — or somewhat his former doom. It is all a bit complicated, and ends with some kind of heavy promotion of non secular 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 cause to look at “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 identify 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 it is 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 sensible given the movie’s notoriously dangerous vital appraisal.
Do you have to watch Premonition?
“Premonition” was Mennan Yapo’s Hollywood directing debut, and based on his filmography, additionally his farewell to Hollywood. In actual fact, 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 vital drubbing that this film obtained, it isn’t all that shocking to study that Yapo did not direct one other Hollywood film afterwards. However no movies in any respect? How dangerous may it have been?
Very. An $84 million field workplace take is not too dangerous for a movie that Peter Travers’ Rolling Stone evaluation summed up thusly: “I’ve a premonition you will not give a rattling. I positive 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 recreation for the viewers.” Sifting by all of the predictable clairvoyance puns and sneers, critics typically 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 if you happen to can determine it out, however to be completely clear, I’m in no way 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 a substitute — or rewatch Coffin Flop, which they’re saying just isn’t a present…
