Thursday, February 12, 2009
This is not an action movie. Push is the marriage of X-Men and Heroes set in gritty Hong Kong gone bad. You have the watchers (fortune tellers), the stitch (a healer), the movers (telekinesis), the pushers (plant thoughts in your head) and a set of angry, screaming Chinese brothers who can cause a brain to bleed. The intent of the movie is another issue. It seems a select few in the world have the previously mentioned abilities. The U.S. government wants to round them up, inject them with a catalytic-type drug to make their abilities stronger, and create an army. The only problem is that each person they inject with this drug dies seconds after the injection. Kira, played by Camilla Belle, is the one exception. Agitated, she steals the drug and escapes from the institution.
In comes teen rebel Cassie Holmes—a watcher. Played by Dakota Fanning, Cassie is a no-nonsense kind of girl who can see her impending doom. She teams up with Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a mover, to take down those responsible for the drug in order to alter the future into a better tomorrow. The enemy, played expertly by Djimon Hounsou, in turn wants to take the drug back to U.S. government.
Between gritty Hong Kong, the different abilities and the constant switching of loyalties, Push tries to be something it is not. It is not The Matrix as it tries to be, and the only action comes at random moments that often prove unnecessary. The one good thing I can say about this movie is that Fanning is no longer a child. With this movie, she transitions beautifully into the world of teenage angst.
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