I still stand by the assessment I made before that this movie looks suspiciously like the one on NBC. heroes. In any case, for those who remain faithful to the current rampant mess that is heroesI have spent the cash for you so that you can maintain your integrity and not pay for Push if you don’t want to Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your point of view, Push it’s generally better than what NBC is offering on Monday nights recently.

let me say my last word on this Push/heroes thing out of the way first. I think there was some “borrowing” of intellectual property here? I can’t deny that at least in concept, there are definitely some similarities that are hard to swallow as luck would have it. As I said in the previous article, I don’t know who “borrowed” from whom or what their intentions were, but they are definitely trying to create the same universe. To go further, the plot of Push is more or less directly the “plot” of the first half of season 3 of heroes (which I’ll get into in the rest of the review). In PushThe defense, execution, tone and “genre” of this film is a different animal than heroes. This is more or less an action movie with some paranormal spices. So no more intellectual theft rants from me on this subject, although in fairness I may ask heroes later in the review for purely comparative purposes.

I’d also like to point out that so far, Tim Kring and NBC don’t seem to have any hard feelings here. from Push is advertising in heroes now and SURPRISE, there was an ad from NBC with heroes clips that play before the movie starts in the theater. I think there is no doubt that Push counted on attracting fans of heroes.

And now the presentation of the function. Push It’s about Nick Gant, a somewhat unfortunate guy with underdeveloped telekinetic powers who gets caught up in a plot by Division, an arm of the US government trying to use the segment of the population with special “abilities” as super- soldiers: a quickly developed and forgotten subplot in season 3 of heroes. Division has been developing a serum meant to enhance and amplify the “abilities” of these people who have them, not to be confused with the Heroes serum that grants abilities to people who don’t have them.

Apparently the division has been around since some time after World War II, but destroying the only seemingly viable version of this serum is apparently the only thing that will “bring Division down”. I’m not sure of the logic here because Division has done well without a viable version of this serum for years. Also, the focus of all this seems to be retrieving the only syringe filled with this serum. It’s a bit strange that the guys who developed the serum had no record of the formula used and no idea how to recreate it.

The division seems to function with a large base of “seers”, “sniffers” and “pushers”. Seers are people who can see the future, sniffers are people who have a highly developed sense of smell, and pushers are people who have the uncanny ability to push thoughts into other people’s heads.

So, amidst a lot of weirdness, illogicality, and craziness, we throw him into several action scenes., and the action isn’t horrible. In fact, it’s pretty well done. Probably the highlights of the film are Dakota Fanning and Chris Evans, who play the “heroes” of the story. They manage to produce a couple of pretty entertaining performances in this hodgepodge of movies. They managed to ground things just enough that the more outrageous logic problems of the plot didn’t really start to hit their mark until it was almost over. Part of the problem our heroes have is that everything they’re going to do can be seen by Division’s seers who always know the future. In order to subvert the Seers’ ability to see their next move, they concoct a rather clever plot to outsmart them, which is the crux of the final act of Push.

This leads to one of the big police outings with Push. They use a cutesy way of ending several of the big action scenes in the movies. You see, since Division’s seers are so good at predicting the future, whenever our core group finds itself trapped in a seemingly hopeless situation, Division just lets them go because the “seers” didn’t see our main characters die that way. way and are afraid of changing the future that they see working out in their favor. So we have several scenes where everything is cornered with vanishing paint, so to speak. Cheap.

So what the hell is it Push in his heart? It’s a sneak peek of an hour and 52 minutes wrapped up in an action movie. The movie actually has fun getting where it’s going. Unfortunately, where it’s going is pretty much nowhere. The movie doesn’t end. Sometimes when you walk out of a movie you say to yourself “man, they obviously set that up for a sequel”. In the case of Push, you can’t really say that because the movie doesn’t end. It literally stops before the story ends. Not only is it set for a sequel, it would require one to finish the story. The damn thing stops talking mid-sentence. In my professional opinion, that’s kind of cheap for someone who paid full admission price for a ticket. The Empire Strikes Back had more story resolution than Push.

So, I have some logical disputes with Push coupled with the fact that it’s a completely unresolved story. Yes, there’s less of a resolution to the immediate peril the main characters find themselves in as the credits roll, but they’re still pretty much at the center of the resolution of the story as it’s presented. So the whole movie comes off as a nearly 2 hour ad for the sequel that we’ll never see if this sucker bombs at the box office.

So what is my final judgment on this? The story has some plot holes that are quite conspicuous. The only real motivation for the main characters is wrapped up in a plot that is never resolved. The climax of the movie doesn’t really make much sense, although it’s pretty well done from an action standpoint. There is a lot of shooting, shouting and running. The movie is kind of a mess, but not without some fun. However, I’m not sure I can recommend it much beyond that. Probably good morning fun for Saturday at noon. I would say save the money you would spend on a ticket for this and spend it on a big popcorn and a drink at the premiere of see men next month.

It’s actually a sad statement for Push he was as much fun as he was for all the trouble. It just tells me that the script was one small effort away from being a pretty solid movie if they’d tried a little harder. I did not hate Pushbut hated the sloppy storytelling and the lack of an “end” to the story.