This was a hard movie to watch. It was difficult to suspend disbelief. That is an important sticking point. I give it three stars because I believe that, with better writing and execution, the concept could be good. But it wasn't. And it wasn't executed well. I found myself pausing the movie to look for what the hell it was about.There's a spoiler at the bottom revealing one of the lines at the end of the movie. Don't say I didn't warn you, but if you want to know how I felt about the movie, just go right to the bottom of the review, read the line, and save yourself the time. Another recommendation: save yourself the time and don't watch the movie.This movie is so bad that it has aliases. I watched it as "Altered Fate" on Netflix. It is also known as "Convergence" (which is where you will find it on IMDb if you look for the actors filmographies: that's right, the films credits show "Altered Fate", but the actors filmographies show "Convergence" with the same character names). The movie is also known as "Premonition" according to IMDb.com. I absolutely positively refuse to watch this movie under two different titles to find out if one of them is "better" or is the "real version".I respect Adrian Paul for his role in the Highlander franchise. I have definitely enjoyed Christopher Lloyd in his role in the Back to the Future franchise. But I cannot for the life of me figure out how they got roped into this movie.So I think it's only fair that I try to explain why I think the movie was bad. The plot was totally opaque. You could not tell why you were watching this movie. The dialog was totally disjointed. There were what might be poignant lines, but they were all just slapped together out of no-where. The dialog was also hard to hear. There were rushes of sound, so I think I had the volume right, but I couldn't understand half of what was being said. There was a metaphysical overtone (which I could totally get into, if it were good), but in the end it just felt uebernormal, rather than paranormal. There were things that attempted to be sexy (which I could totally get into, if it were good), but it wasn't.In the end, well, ... in the words of Morley Allen, Christopher Lloyd's character ... "I felt betrayed".Plus, what was that cheesy stuff (feces) with the beach scene.

"Convergence" was a more appropriate title than "Premonition". At the beginning of the movie, Christopher Lloyd, says, "You look for reasons in this life, and sometimes you get an answer even if you have to wait awhile." This is a movie that you must watch and pay attention or you may miss something. Cynthia Preston was good as Ali and I liked Blu Mankuma's role as John. Adrian Paul did a very decent job in his part as Brady. Christopher Lloyd was wonderful and his thoughts were how I felt through out the movie. Several scenes made no sense at first and I am not sure that some ever did make any sense. It is definitely a psychological thriller and I felt like it gave me lots to think about after it ended even though I felt as though I was missing something during the movie. Nevertheless, even with the flaws in this movie is still worth watching. I would recommend this movie highly for those interested in the genre. It was at times confusing, but so is life and it will leave you thinking.

Since the X-Files, supernatural thrillers have become a staple for television, the cinema and, of course, direct to video release.Convergence is one of the latter, which in itself is not necessarily a bad thing, there's often been a tendency amongst this genre for the lower budgets to yield higher rewards, but alas with Convergence this is not the case.The plot centers on the exploits of a pair of tabloid reporters (Bear in mind we are talking American tabloids here, whose staples are UFOs, big foots and Elvis sightings), who get caught up in more than a few strange incidents themselves. Things seem to start moving when Ali (Cynthia Preston) suffers peculiar delusions and starts wandering across town, as if being called to a certain location.After this she moves into a new apartment, near this location and starts to become a focus for paranormal events, attracting the fatherly concerns of her editor, Morley (Christopher Llyod) and the more direct attentions of her new landlord (Adrian Paul).The plot twists, turns and spins in several directions before flying off, seemingly at random. The film then builds towards a climax, built upon the notion that 14 years previously something happened that shouldn't have, and the world is somehow trying to set things right.If you have had any problems following what has been explained above above then you'll probably be completely lost when it comes to watching this film. There are some good ideas in here, don't get me wrong, the notion of 'convergence points' for Earth's ley-lines isn't original, but could have been used to great effect here. Also the idea of fate trying to reassert itself is interestingly used (if slightly flawed, and nowhere near as polished as in Final Destination).Unfortunately the whole thing just doesn't sit well together. The cast is uninspiring, with only Lloyd rising to the occasion, and even then we've seen him do much better. Adrian Paul, perhaps better known as TV's 'Highlander' is truly appalling in his role, the idea of conveying any type of emotion whilst in character seems somehow foreign to him.In short, Convergence tries for depth, it tries for meaning and it skirts interestingly around the edge of the paranormal. There are no real thrills here though, little suspense can be found and the only real conspiracy you wonder about is the one that got this onto the shelves in the first place.

I rented this movie because it had Adrian Paul in it, and yes, it did have Adrian Paul in it, but it just barely could be considered a speaking role, more likely hired for his body as he is featured in a couple of nude scenes. I could not believe how terrible the writing was, and the "special" effects I found to be inappropriate as well as damaging to the possibility of being appealing in a "psycho drama" kind of way. If you really want to mess up someones evening, recommend this film to them.