Sunday, February 22, 2009

Push or Pathetic?

I recently took what I thought would be a very fun filled weekend trip to Fargo, ND. In this trip I hoped to watch a movie that I had been very excited about. What movie you may ask, well none other then the movie “Push”. This movie had some mind blowing commercials and advertising, in my mind. But when it came right down to it. Push was none other than a pathetic knock of the TV show heroes. With horrible story line accompanied by ok acting, the only reason why this movie got any attention was because of the famous cast it had hired.
This movie was basically humans that evolved into people with abilities to move object, see the future, and so on. Sounds very familiar to you heroes fans doesn’t it. Well there’s more, not only is the government group call the Division, much like heroes, the Company, but also much like heroes, the division has people with abilities working for them as well. Now I don’t know about Hollywood, but I ashamed at my self for spending $7.25 to go see this movie, plus gas money. Just imagine how they must feel, spending in the millions I am sure.
Now this movie was not all bad. The acting was subpar, Dakota Fanning did however deliver a brilliant performance once again, and for being only 13 that is not bad. She is well on her way to stardom. Chris Evens,(Nick) for being a guy who is usually on fire, did an alright job with the role he was assingned. Personally I feel he needs to stop playing roles in movies were he does not know what’s going on and needs to play a part where he is just, simply put, the MAN. Djimon Hounsou (Carver) in my opinion fell way below his normal standards. In his movies he usually has a swagger about him, which basically says mess with me and I will make you do more than pay. However in this movie it was more of a go ahead do what you want I will be ok with it and I will get you back later. Overall I give this movie a 2.5 out of 5 on the Potter grading scale.

2 comments:

  1. I saw commercials for this too and I wanted to see it , but thanks to this class for making us do these, so I could find out about how bad it was! Also, I think they always put the best parts of the movie in the commercials making us want to go see them and then we get there and we are like what the heck is this all about!? I have been to quite a few movies that turned out like that. I was so excited to see them and then it was a total let down!

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  2. I also wanted to check this movie, but i did hear some people saying how it was not a very good movie. Chris Evens is a good actor and probably be in movies where he is just "the man" i might still check it out but thanks for the info.

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