Rare Genre Rarely Done Well
So back in Ancient History (60s) there was a sort of strange silly film called 'The Power' made by George Pal. There live amongst us the next step in evolution. Stronger, smarter and with strange psychic powers. And there are secret Government agencies looking into this. The Power must not have done well; a decade goes by and there's this strange big budget fantasy fillm called 'The Fury'. A secret Government agency kidnaps a secret agent's son who has psychic powers and experiments on him. The Fury must not have done well because nobody copycat-ed it either. A decade later David Cronenberg makes 'Scanners'. Low budget, better writing, gorier effects. Cult favorite but soon forgotten. And now TWO decades later 'Push'. So bad I'll have to wait Two More Decades! Sigh. The name, 'Push' doesn't refer to the main characters or their powers, so why call the film, 'Push'? Its a poor story poorly told. Too much telling us what is going on, not enough showing.