Push
Since the critical and popular success of “The Dark Knight”, the superhero genre can be approached differently. Instead of taking over all the codes specific to the genre, it is now possible to innovate. That’s what looking hard in “Push”. While not entirely successful, the story is sufficiently loaded to satisfy the adrenaline thrill.
The mysterious Kira (Camilla Belle) is on the run and many people are after him to put his hand into the bag she has stolen. There are members of the Division led by the malicious Carver (Djimon Hounsou), the wicked Chinese Hong Kong, and the duo of Nick (Chris Evans) and Cassie (Dakota Fanning) who would avenge the fervent members of their families. All those beautiful characters have different special powers that allow them to know the future or to move objects by the power of their psyche. Between the strength, speed and ingenuity, a combination of talent will be needed to handle the enemy and achieve his ends.
“Push” began as the first “X-Men” by Bryan Singer. After the Second World War, there have been experiments on human beings. Through various injections, they have mutated, becoming different from the rest of society. People can heal the body, others make some money. The “Pushers” of the title are able – like the heads of the classic “The Manchurian Candidate by John Frankenheimer – to implant ideas in the minds of people. From there, anything can happen, as these characters appear and disappear by saving or by attacking the hero. What put a little spice in this quest twisted, both unpredictable and inconsistent.
That history is moving in all directions, be unnecessarily complex. If the film broke the box office of action may be created fairly quickly. Dialogues don’t support situations sometimes tired, it is easy to pick up during the first few minutes. This puts a bit more. Unlike the “Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk” and all these little productions inspired this test to the sharp inventiveness done much with a very limited budget. The action scenes are spectacular if not fundamentally original humor allows the whole does not always take itself seriously and the sprawl scenario emphasizes the contribution of several protagonists, not just one hero attacks the villain.
There is the realization of Paul McGuian that helps to swallow the pill. This English theater director, discovered by its intriguing “The Acid House” and “Gangster No. 1″ has always done well with very limited topics ( “Wicker Park”, “Lucky Number Slevin”). To bring some novelty to a genre that lost steam, he decided to treat excessive images and photography, while having recourse to a soundtrack rather than sought.
Big plastic toy with superb ambitious scenario, the development not always maintained and interpretation uneven, “Push” is to the superhero films that “Twilight” is the stories about vampires. It’s not everyone who will join, but fans will defend the body and soul that this product brings a little freshness to the themes as old as the world.
Rating: 3/5
Cast: Colin Ford, Joel Gretsch, Djimon Hounsou, Dakota Fanning, Robert Tsonos, Brandon Rhea, Camilla Belle, Neil Jackson, Chris Evans, Kai Cheung Leung, Sun Nan Hung, Corey Stoll
Directed By: Paul McGuigan
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Posted on Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at 7:10 am