Sans compromis

Sloppy Burt Reynolds thriller about a man who receives a premonition of a terrorist attack and tries to stop the killer before it happens. At least that's what I heard before watching the movie. All I got was loads of cheap made-for-TV-style dialog, sex scenes and violence.

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

A Burt Reynolds mad bomber mystery with a script that is severely under developed. Burt does however wear a nice assortment of hair pieces, as he tries to piece together several random bombings in Miami. Further complicating things is Bruce Dern, as a death row prisoner with premonitions of the bombings in his dreams, making the story extremely disjointed. Charles Durning is barely in the film, with small parts in the beginning and end. If you blink, you will miss Paul Bartel playing a hotel desk manager behind a cage. Essential to any deranged bomber screenplay is insight into the bomber's motivation. Here the motivation makes zero sense, and thus the movie itself becomes a "so what?" Unfortunately, "Hard Time the Premonition" is totally forgettable, even for Burt Reynolds fans. - MERK

At the end of the previous year's Hard Times, Burt Reynolds has decided to take the fall for partner Charles Durning. It means one-to-five years in prison. Since he's an ex-cop, he can't be in the general population, so they stick him on Death Row, between Roscoe Lee Browne, who has grown philosophical, and Bruce Dern, who keeps talking about his crazy dreams. When Reynolds gets out, he stays in the back room of Paul Bartel's bar, with the huge mastiff, and refuses to have anything to do with Durning. But the police come to him: it turns out that Dern's rambling about his dreams are absolutely accurate in predicting a current serial killer. He won't talk to anyone but Reynolds, and he won't talk to Reynolds until one man is released from prison, and Dern's daughter, Gigi Rice, visits him in prison. Which she refuses to do.

TNT thought they had a shot at respectability with these made-for-TV movies starring Reynolds, but Reynolds isn't putting much effort into it, adding quizzical comic interpretations of his lines; frankly, with the heavy-handed depression that director David Cass Sr. Invests the movie, a little comic relief is welcome. But it makes such a hash of Reynolds' character, that there's no dramatic tension in the character arcs. You know everyone and everything is going to come around all right in the end. Except for the unseen victims of the serial killers.

Burt usually just plays himself and occasionally that's enough to carry a well written movie - like "Sharkey's Machine.

Not so this time. It's a lame story, lame acting, a lame screenplay and in general a waste of time.

Save yourself from this one and watch something else or just go to bed early and get some rest.

On the other hand - if you want to see Burt in something that is actually worse than this bomb, try out "Big City Blues".

That one will really have you gagging.

It doesn't deserve a 1.

Burt Reynolds interprets the hardest and implacable cop of Florida again, in this movie that is, without a doubt, one of the most interesting and tense series of TNT.Coming back in directing the film, Reynolds is Logan McQueen, and at his side,there is his partner Charlie Duffy (Charles Durning),who constantly challenge the streets of Miami. "Hard Time"'s great idea is the fact it shows a raw and sincere reality of the policemen's degrading routine: the homosexuals, the prostitutes, the criminals, all this is shown by the lens of the director Burt Reynolds, without make-ups. Perhaps that's why some people complain of the explicit violence of some scenes, but "Hard Time", by exploring the reality, turns into an original and interesting crime-drama. The production is of an exceptional quality, the film is expensive and luxurious, with action scenes very well built and unforgettable characters.In "Hard Time: Premonition" , Logan McQueen has to hunt a terrorist who is exploding Miami, and as his only ally, he needs to trust in a convict who says he is capable to foresee the explosions!

The film is explosive, shocking and violent!Burt Reynolds is excellent, as always, and,as he said on an interview, he seems that he used tactics to give the best of his performance: he installed a monitor in the filming sets, so that he could constantly verify his acting. The film is not better than the first of the series, but it is brilliant, and TNT already prepares the next release ""Hard Time: Hide and Seek", the third, with Reynolds, Charles Durning, and Keith Carradine (who worked with the star in "The Hunter's Moon"). My advice is: see the first "Hard Time", and later check "Hard Time: Premonition"!if you like interesting and explosive films, in "Sharky's Machine" style and "Payback" , you have to watch it!!!