Sunday 27 September 2009

DVD: Push (dir: Paul McGuigan, 2009)


"That sounds like a great plan..."

Push does something astonishing - it makes its genre-mate Jumper look interesting. Saddled with utterly leaden dialogue and pacing throughout , even the usually-charismatic Chris Evans fails to bring the movie to life. Dakota Fanning gives a performance that appears to have wandered in from another movie entirely, as do many subsidiary characters, and herein lies the movie's fundamental flaw - with no clear sense of purpose or motivation, the story meanders and flounders for its agonisingly bloated 106-minutes running time in an inconsistent and criminally uninteresting manner. Push makes for a decidedly glum and uninvolving viewing experience, and thanks to the magic of DVD, you can extend the misery with just over three minutes of pointless deleted scenes.

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