: Push
I’ll admit I was not excited about seeing this; I really wanted to see Coraline, but I wanted to see it in 3D and that meant going to a theatre further away, so I saw this instead. Big disappointment. The trailers made me think it was derivative, reminding me of Jumper and TV shows like Heroes and though it turned out to have some interesting ideas, the way they were implemented was ultimately disappointing. It’s not really an action film; it’s not a special effects film; it’s not a comic book film; it’s not a film noir, though it has that kind of mysterious tone at times. In short, it’s a film that isn’t quite sure what it is and ends up being nothing. It’s not the worst film; it’s just decidedly average. There are some intriguing ideas: for example, the whole “how do we come up with a plan which the enemy prophets can’t predict?” presented a fascinating problem, but the solution was implemented in such a clunky and clumsy manner it was confusing at best and boring at worst. Basically, this is a movie with some really good scenes, some really poor scenes, and the whole thing averages out to the utterly mundane.
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