Push

I took an unfunny pill before I wrote this review. So don’t expect your usual ha ha’s and wonderful wit you will usually expect with a Storyblazer review. My personal experience and vast wonderful interesting stories that accompany the wit, are lacking too. When your on the run from elf hunters, an unfunny pill throws them off the scent. It’s tough to be persecuted because your different. Which brings us to this review.

If your one lone being with superpowers like Superman, Spiderman, or Barak Obama you usually receive praise and honor among ordinary citizens. When you expand this extraordinary ability to a group of individuals, praise and respect is replaced with fear and loathing. Usually a law suit is raised to stop you parading around and saving people’s lives (Incredibles, upcoming Watchmen) or else the government or some other disgruntled organization decides to hunt you down and lock you away where you can’t use your abilities (Heroes, X-Men, Jumper, Revenge of the Sith). In ‘Push’ the government decides to use the extraordinary power of individuals to further their own lust for power. This lust was passed down by the Nazi’s who started tampering with people’s psychic mental state.

Kira Hudson is the only person ever to escape ‘The division’. She is a pusher. They can push specific memories, emotions and thoughts into a person’s mind. The evil villain after Kira is also a pusher. Also after Kira is the Chinese equivalent of the Division. Both sides have a team of Sniffers and Watchers trying to track them down. Watchers watch the future and sniffers can stiff out a person’s past from an object they have touched. It is interesting to watch a person’s past flash by as a sniffer picks up a tooth brush and the moviegoer watches past events unfold before their eyes. The other people looking for Kira are Slacker Mover Nick and 14 year old Watcher Cassie. Movers can move things with their mind. These are the good guys. Seeing Kira is the only one to flee ‘The Division’, she has the only key to stopping ‘The Division’ for good.

Cassie (or should I say Dakota Fanning) is not the only interesting character in the film but is the most interesting character and the one who holds the film together and the reason to actually see the movie, as much fun as the fight scenes and other cool action sci-fi stuff there is. She is one cool human being. If only she were an elf. The best moments in the film involve Cassie and Nick trying to make the future unwatchable to the Chinese watchers. A mystical time trippy chess match is being played by the good guys and the Lollypop sucking Watcher.

In the film you’ll also see Bleeders, Shifters, Wipers, Shadows, and Snitchers. Dr. Seuss could work a good book out of all the people with powers in this film. If I had more gumption I would do it myself. For more explanation on these things it is best to go to Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_(2009_film)

Ok. It’s time for me to try and put a moral theme to this film. It’s amazing that those with no power want to control those with marvelous miraculous powers. After healing a man on the Sabbath and raising a friend from the dead, the Grand Storyteller’s enemies wanted to kill him and to kill the man he rose from the dead. His trusted disciples, John and Peter were thrown in jail after healing a crippled man.

When certain followers of the Grand Story Teller through the centuries displayed great acts of love to others, those with unloving hearts wanted their great power of love to be snuffed out or silenced.

This communist philosophy displayed by certain individuals wants all citizens to be the same with no one being better then anyone else. Grand Storyteller philosophy teaches that everyone is the same before The Grand Storyteller but that everyone has different gifts and that each person has a part to play in the overall plot of the story. Not all gifts are written equaly. Some gifts have more responsibility. But each gift adds value to the whole. The tiniest part of a machine helps it to run smoothly. The little triangle in an orchestra adds to the overall quality of the symphony. The littlest Hobbit adds to Frodo’s overall journey.

You can either shut other beings down because there better at you in business, love, or flying, or you can take the gifts you have and try to make better use of them in your own individual lives. Just because other better superhero movies have been made does not mean that you shouldn’t try to make your own, like the makers of this film did. It’s not ‘X-Men’, or ‘The Dark Knight’, but it isn’t ‘The Fantastic Four’ either. It might satisfy your action adventure craving or it might make you want to put ‘The Incredibles’ in and watch it. Not a bad film, but not great either. It is somewhat fun though. It will leave theaters soon after I write this review and you can get it through the marvelous empire known as Netflix. I will tell you about the magical equivalent sometime.

This is where my review ends as it looks as I may have to fend off the elf hunters with some Elf fu.

2.75 Booya’s out of 5.

This has been a Banyai Storyblazer report.