Bullock lacks foresight

This suspenseful thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire movie, but a forced message and sloppy editing left me full of questions.\nLinda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) is living the normal life: taking her kids to school, shopping for food, cleaning the house. Then a sheriff arrives with the devastating news that her husband, away on business, died in a car accident the day before. Could it be a bad dream? Linda thinks so -- she awakens the next day to find her husband alive, eating breakfast, watching TV. But tomorrow he's dead again; the next day he's alive.\nHer husband, Jim (Julian McMahon aka Dr. Christian Troy from "Nip/Tuck"), pulls off a stellar performance. Their relationship is well-developed in a scene where the couple are happy in their new home and we feel the devolution of the relationship to the point where they're acting more like roommates than spouses.\nLinda realizes she's caught in a time continuum spanning a week, wherein she is reversed and fast-forwarded through time each day. The first day she wakes up on a Thursday -- the next on Tuesday. If she can just figure out what day it is and use the information wisely, she can save her husband. (Man, a calendar would have been a wise investment.)\nAfter an unsuccessful visit to a shrink, she seeks guidance from Father Kennedy (Jude Ciccolella), who reads Linda passages about people who have had premonitions about their families and tells her to have faith. This is perhaps the most pivotal scene in the movie -- the one that broadcasts the movie's message to the world -- a better actor could have done Father Kennedy justice. Ciccolella is dull, causing many to leave for bathroom breaks and refills. Being a not-so-religious person, I feel a movie with religious undertones publicizing the message that being a better Christian will allow people to evade death is utterly ridiculous.\nFather Kennedy was telling Linda to have faith, not in God, but in her marriage and life in general. But the movie fails to fully execute the point that it doesn't matter what you have faith in as long as you have faith, which left me confused and unsatisfied.\nBullock maintains a strong dramatic performance throughout, but her choice to act in this problematic film may hamper her credibility as an actress.\nMennan Yapo's direction, for being not-so-well-known, was above average. Each actor, from child to adult, had a believable personality, but it fell flat in the editing room. Too much may have been taken out that could have left the viewer less confused. The ending could have been better if the message was clearer and the plot wasn't so confusing, but at least it wasn't predictable.