Push
Push centers round a group of young adults (some younger than others) who have telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities. The film starts with a dramatic scene of a young Nick Gant escaping a group from a government agency. A nice opening and set up to what I hoped would be an entertaining film however that was about exciting as it got.
We catch up with Nick Gant (Chris Evans) about 10 years later, he is quickly joined by Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning) and later Kira Hudson (Camilla Belle). A couple of others also help with their special powers along the way. The group have to use their powers to stop Henry Carver (Djimon Hounsou) – the gentleman from the agency, from getting hold of a solution that Kira had stolen from the agency. This solution boosts the abilities of the special powers these people have, the agency want to use this to turn the ‘specials’ in to weapons. They have to outrun the agency and another group with special powers, the problem is this is difficult when they can read your mind and see the future.
There are so many problems with the film, it is too slow, too complicated, too little action, the list goes on but the one I would just like to look at is my ‘too complicated’ complaint. What I mean is they’ve tried to be clever in the scripts with ways to keep you guessing, but all this seems to do is produce lots of different powers that people can have almost just to fit a plot hole. The biggest problem though is you get so bogged down in what they are trying to do that you forget about the characters and as soon as you’ve lost interest in them that’s it, the film is pointless.
I’m not saying it’s a complete disaster but don’t expect Bourne trilogy, The Matrix or anything like that. People have drawn comparisons with Heroes and you can see why, my advise buy the first series of that and then you’ll realise that Push could have been so much better. A good idea badly executed.
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