Directed by:
Paul McGuiganScreenplay:
David BourlaCinematography:
Milan Peter SovaComposer:
Neil DavidgeCast:
Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou, Joel Gretsch, Neil Jackson, Colin Ford, Maggie Siff, Cliff Curtis, Ming-Na Wen, Xiaolu Li (more)VOD (2)
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A group of people with telekinetic and clairvoyant powers are being hunted down by a secret government agency known as The Division, which conducts inhumane experiments on them in order to make use of their psychic abilities for their own less-than-honourable purposes. Nick Gant (Chris Evans), a second-generation telekinetic who has been in hiding in Hong Kong since The Division murdered his father more than a decade ago, is forced out of hiding when 13-year-old clairvoyant Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning) seeks his help in finding Kira (Camilla Belle) - a young woman with the most powerful psychic ability of all, the ability to 'push' thoughts into the minds of others - who may hold the key to ending The Division's evil programme. (Icon Film Distribution)
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The first half is a decent pilot to a decent action sci-fi series, while the second half is a compilation of the following twelve episodes. It’s really too bad given the fact that McGuigan is one of the greatest talents of his generation. Not many people have such fancy visual treats (editing, cinematography). The biggest draw is probably just the fact that this is every pedophile’s dream come true - Dakota is fifteen, plays a thirteen-year-old and looks like neither age category. :) Beyond that, Chris is growing with every movie, Camilla looks pretty stupid, and Djimon is really starting to play his tough hunters all a bit too much the same.
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This movie has its good moments, but overall it is on the weaker side of what has come out of the mutant genre. The story has more twists than a pretzel, not to mention occasional jumps into the past (the glass of beer and the toothbrush) and variously predicted futures. Luckily a really interesting group of actors comes together here and apart from that guy Evans, we occasionally see a drunk and very striking Dakota Fanning. These two spend the whole picture reeling off wisecracks and you can see that they really hit it off together. And I could watch Camilla Belle in any movie whenever you like. An extra star for the marvelous shots of Hong Kong. A high 3.
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