PUSH Couldn’t Move Me
I rented PUSH the other day. This is the film about the good and bad guys with psychic powers. The guys are able to push peeple around literally, push thoughts into another’s mind, glimpse the future, and push sonic waves into brains to turn gray matter into oatmeal. The premise was excellent. The casting was adequate. But the execution was flawed.
Maybe it was the marketing. I was expecting a sci-fi action thriller with lots of action. It came off more like a neo-thriller, focusing on [bad] musical interludes that were supposed to intrigue and entice, yet only served to annoy. I can see the filmmakers now screaming with terror, “Let’s try this, no let’s try that, no this” and nothing worked as planned. Something went off-key and never got back on track. But such is the life with studio films and executives and producers who want to season the pot wth their fingertips just so they can say, “Yeah. I made that.”
I’ve been a fan of Chris Evans ever since Cellular, which was a spectacular little film. When the right film comes along he’s going to ignite and explode into superstardom…if he wants that. Dakota Fanning has more talent in her little finger than most actors twice her age, but she and Camilla Belle were underused. Djimon Hounsou does well as the beautifully dark-skinned nemesis, but he’s too talented for roles like this — or he needs to learn from folks like Alan Rickman and Anthony Hopkins how to turn a bad guy into an iconic figure.
In short, the film missed the mark. Or — and this came to me while watching it — maybe it hit the mark and sparked just enough interest to become a sci-fi TV series.
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