Summit Entertainment has become the key film distributor for the youthful set. Late last year, they made a killing with "Twilight", and now they're back with "Push", an action thriller starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning.

In "Push", Evans and Fanning play individuals with special abilities who soon find themselves involved in a conspiracy while in Hong Kong. A clairvoyant Fanning is convinced that this particular conspiracy will ultimately take their lives. Soon, their on the run and find themselves battling Asian siblings with similar powers and a government official (Djimon Hounsou) with a hidden agenda.

Push was written and directed by Paul McGuigan, the film maker behind the stylized crime thriller Lucky Number Slevin. His latest actioneer plays like a low rent version of David Cronenberg's brilliant film " Scanners", only without the edge. It certainly has visual flair, but that's about it.

While "Push" isn't necessarily slow, it is surprisingly dull and stretched out well beyond reason. Strange considering it has enough characters, twists, and turns to fill five movies. Maybe that's part of the problem. The film is simply overstuffed, and it really got to a point where I didn't care what was going on.

Chris Evans brings the same sort of lose, swagger filled persona he brought to the "Fantastic Four" films. Dakota Fanning has this whole goth thing going here. Perhaps she's out to prove that those rumors about her being cast in "New Moon" are true. Camilla Belle overplays her role as a young woman at the heart of the conspiracy. Hounsou hams it up as the bad guy and while he is a physically intimidating presence, I never entirely bought him as the villain.

There are a few cool sequences to speak of in "Push". The skyscraper climax is pretty well executed, but in the end, this obvious attempt at a hip new franchise fizzles out well before it's sequel ready conclusion.