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Push, directed by Paul McGuigan (Wicker Park, The Reckoning) and available now on DVD, plays like a bad Heroes plot rip off, complete with a shady government agency named the Division in place of Heroes ‘the company,’ and a teen-aged Dakota Fanning in the role of the not-cheerleader who looks to save the world – or at least her mother.
Chris Evans (Fantastic Four) plays Nick, a psychic ‘mover’ who has dubious kinetic abilities; Fanning plays Cassie who is a ‘watcher,’ someone who can see glimpses of the future and yet records them in colored chalk in a black papered notebook (which apparently all watchers do – a retro step to record the future).
This movie seemed interesting as it is another of Fanning’s more grown up roles, but unfortunately she comes across as a weird combo of Kate and Ashley Olsen, but with a more sarcastic and haughty demeanor (as if that was possible).
The mishmash of a plot has Cassie and Nick team up to find a mysterious case that may or may not contain $6 million or the fate of the world – or the key to freeing Cassie’s mother who is being held captive by the Division.
The film cannot decide what it needs to be: part mystery, part scifi, part futuristic drama, and its makers believe that setting it in Hong Kong gives it a bit of Blade Runner mystique. Not.
Push has a bit of violence, lots of wimpy special effects, and is safe for most teens and preteens, most especially because they will lose interest or fall asleep long before it ends.
One and a half out of four stars. Do something else with your time. If you like Dakota Fanning, you will enjoy The Secret Life of Bees (and her performance in same) much better.
But if you insist, you can rent Push at Netflix and also thru Redbox. It is rated Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, brief strong language, smoking and a scene of teen drinking.
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