I remember seeing
Jumper a while back - a completely asinine movie based solely around Nightcrawler's teleportation ability from
X2 (which still ranks as the best Marvel comic book movie that I've seen) and starring Hayden Christensen,who managed to prove that he was just as equally terrible playing other characters not named Anakin Skywalker. :roll:
So now I've just watched
Push, another comic-based movie which also rips off the mutant aspect of
X-Men (even though they're called "psychics", they're bassically mutants since each one has a single power), but instead of only focusing on one mutant ability like
Jumper did, Push focuses on several powers such as telekinisis, telepathy/mind control, healing powers, and future sight. So is this movie any better than what
Jumper was?
No... absolutely not.
The main character was godly awful - a complete dumbass who has little experience or practice using his psychic power ("pushing", which is a dumb name for telekinisis), refuses to listen to the warnings of Dakota Fanning's future seer, and tries to get revenge for his dad's murder against two men VASTLY superior to him in power (and is only saved due to Dakota's intervention). I absolutely REFUSE to believe that he could've come up with a plan as remotely complex as the heroes executed in the finale, given just how f*cking stupid he's been for the majority of the story.
Other characters are introduced with little to no development apart from how they know the main character, aside from the heroine, but the plot twists involving her character at the end were confusing (in a
Saw-twist kinda way) and only made me hate her as well. About the only aspect that I found vaguely interesting in the movie was Dakota Fanning's character and her rivalry with fellow seer, Lolipop Girl, but again, she wasn't the main focus of the movie (Dumbass McStupid was).
Other problems that bothered me were some of the odd coincidences (Hong Hong must be the capital of mutants or something), ridiculous actions of the characters (the final battle between two powerful psychics is a boring-ass fistfight), and plotpoints that went nowhere (a huge part of the story was about saving Dakota's mother, but we never get to that point - the movie just ends, trying to pointlessly set up for a potential sequel).
3/10