PUSH is JUMPER sequel or HEROES wannabe

Jumper or Heroes?

I think Push more like Jumper than Heroes. They both feature a small population of gifted individuals being hunted by a powerful and secretive organization and with both securing the skills of a ruthless African American Agent (In Jumper, an agent is played by Samuel L. Jackson).

I am wondering what the movie makers are thinking of their audience these days. Push is another bad Hollywood movie with nothing to offer. The entire plot is so very predictable from the start itself mashing in all new fictional physic abilities. Trust me; you have seen this movie before. If you are a younger teenager you might like this movie. But for those of you who remember the action movies of ‘90s you have seen this movie.

The Hong Kong setting is the only positive, it looks so fresh and different than others but not enough to carry the movie.

The weakness is in the story/script, it looks is just happen, and there is no historical background that explain more about this movie.

The problems are multiple and the movie ends up being incoherent.

The movie looks so fake, cheap and boring that I am trying hard to keep me from sleeping.

This movie is lack of action scenes; meanwhile I expect too much for this movie. The visual effects don’t help too much to raise the tension of its action scenes. They look so fake and cheap.

I’m surprised there is Dakota Fanning (Cassie)here and finally she has grown up. I watched Dakota Fanning two years ago in War of The World as Tom Cruise’s daughter. She plays so wonderful in that movie and can raise the audience’s emotion through her acting but I don’t see any of that here. She acts wildly by wearing a short skirt or other weird costumes, drinking alcoholic drinks or trying to show her bad temper but I think all of them are not working and they make her just like a b***h. She is clearly looking to this movie as a vehicle to bridge the transition from child performer to adulthood.

Chris Evans(Nick) couldn’t put aside the character of Johnny Storm (Fantastic Four). His acting is not brilliant but does his best with such an awful script. Meanwhile Camilla Belle(Kira) and Djimon Honsou(Carver) are just complements in this movie. The director doesn’t give enough portion for each of them so they can show how important them in this movie.

Overall, this movie is quite entertaining and it’s appropriate for you guys who look for a “light” movie. You will see the beauty of Camilla Belle or the wild side of Dakota Fanning.

I give 6 out of 10 stars for this movie.

posted by EBG - 0608185