Push (2009)

Director: Paul McGuigan
Release Date: Feb. 6, 2009
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
MPAA: Rated PG-13
Summit Entertainment




The ORB's take: Interesting concept, not quite the best cast.

Movie Review:
I hoped it would have been better. With that being said, I have to say that I think my problem was the cast and the location this was shot. Most of the time, I don't think the location matters to me a lot but I thought it made this movie seem confined - That may make more sense after watching this film. This is a movie where "agents" are after "subjects" that have different inherited powers, so there are a lot of foot chases and running so they don't get captured, repeat, then repeat again. Half way through this flick I was wanted them to just get to the end fight and get it over with. Throughout the movie you learn about the powers that these people have, and the agency has that been trying to develop a super-serum to enhance their powers so that the government can use them in war- type situations. Some of them have powers to push (movers), predict the future (watchers), shadow people so they can't be found (shadows), scream until your head explodes (bleeders), sniffers (yes, they can sniff something and see the past of that object - and they seem like they will sniff anything), and so on and so on. The push (mover) power is probably the best power in the film, it is the power of telekinesis, and is the power most focused upon throughout this film. The cast does have some people you will recognize like Djimon Hounsou ("Gladiator"), Chris Evans ("Fantastic Four"), Camilla Belle ("10,000 B.C."), and Dakota Fanning ("Man on Fire"), but there is not very good chemistry. One thing that was hard to believe was hearing fifteen year old Dakota Fanning trying to sound believable when she was swearing. Rent the DVD, when you have seen everything else. It could have definitely worked, but somehow didn't.

What to Watch For: The end fight scene.

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