Hit: Movie may have a lame title but at least it's got more things happening than Speed of Thought.
Real Talk: Truck driver talking to young Jennifer Gaines: "Hey, look at you out here in the middle of nowhere. You want a ride little girl?" *Young Jennifer screams until the truck driver keels over and dies.* I'm sure that was a bit harsh but for all we know that guy could've been a Pedo.
Miss: Hard to tell if Young Jennifer is begging for water the way how bored she sounds.
Miss: It's established that Jennifer has telekinesis, so how exactly she managed to summoned a small rain cloud when she was a child? I'm pretty sure that telekinesis doesn't work that way.
Hit: (Adult) Jennifer taking a refreshing shower. Granted you don't see much of the good bits but still.
Miss: *Jennifer and four other TKs going through an ionization scan.* Not that I don't appreciate the Jennifer cleavage but why does she have her blouse unzipped half way then zipps it up afterwards? Gertie doesn't have her blouse open like that so what was the point of Jennifer having her breasts nearly hanging out?
Hit: Jennifer ass shot.
Miss: White is a U.S. General yet he doesn't seem to be in General uniform. Seriously the guy looks like a bouncer than a U.S. General.
Hit: Basically the TKs are hooked to a weaponized Cerebro that allows them to create severe storms. Interesting concept....
Hit: *Close up shots the four TKs inside their helmets.* Suddenly I'm getting Iron Man flashbacks.
Miss: A news reporter keeps pointing to the "major devastation behind her" yet the movie shows no such "devastation". I mean yes this small town was hit by a freak tornado and lightning strikes yet it doesn't seem to look like the town's in complete ruin. It's as if the movie didn't had the budget to show the aftermath of the freak storm destruction.
Miss: Also having these small town people TELLING what happened (while still not SHOWING the aftermath) doesn't help either.
Miss: Also, also the news report mentions about an earthquake, what earthquake? There was just the freak storm that hit the town, what freaking earthquake? Was there a scene taken out due to time and budget? Was there a miscommunication between the writers and editors? Did the people on post-production got batshit confused on the job? Even if there was an earthquake the movie did a piss poor job of showing it.
Miss: Some of the visual effects can be quite embarrassing bad especially how the composition don't seem to match up with the foregrounds and backgrounds. Like an amauter F/X guy spending five minutes in After Effects on most of the scenes.
Hit: Although the practical effects are pretty good.
Miss: General White sends a strike team to retrieve two TKs (Jennifer and Adam) with nothing but guns. Not so much as having any special countermeasures whatsoever. Because sending normal people after a couple of superhumans has never gone wrong at all.
Miss: This one woman on the strike team is on this dangerous retrieval mission without a helmet. While the other strike team members are clearly wearing helmets. She might as well have a sign over her head that reads "HEY, SHOOT HERE!"
Miss/Sarcastic: Oh wow, these well trained strike team were easily taken out by two psychically powerful people. I swear I didn't see this coming.
Miss: So the other four TKs can manipulate the elements (Gretie with water, Clive with earth, Rick with fire and Ruben with electricity). So how is Jennifer able to summoned rain clouds or those lightning strikes that took out the strike team earlier?
Miss: *In Jennifer's flashback: On the road with her dad as he keeps telling her to stop singing but she just kept on singing anyway. Resulting her dad getting angry to the point of crashing off road.* I know this is meant to be dramatic but it's kinda hard to sympathize with Jennifer when she practically cause the car crash. Annoying child characters are neither cute nor endearing and young Jennifer was no different. So yes if Jennifer wasn't being an annoying little shit that car crash wouldn't have happened.
Miss: The movie doesn't even shown the car crash but instead shows the (sorta) aftermath. That raises so many questions but I'm just gonna chalk it up with one answer. The movie just didn't have the time and budget for a car crash effect.
Miss: Also young Jennifer didn't seem to be concerned about her dead dad with that look of the obliviously deadpan reaction on her face.
Miss: I postulate that the writers have confused telekinesis with psychokinesis because how else Adam can summon lightning like he's freaking Thor. Basically telekinesis is whatever the script deems it as convenient to the plot then just moving objects mentally.
Miss: Once again the Project MindBlown strike team are easily taken out superpower psychics.
Miss: Jennifer gets a vision of Gertie fighting Rick, sensing that she might be in danger. But when Rick and Gertie clash powers, Jennifer doesn't so much as warn her nor psychically push her out of the way. Just stands there and does nothing until Gertie loses and gets burned alive.
Miss: Clive attempts to crush Jennifer, Adam and Ruben with a giant boulder. But Jennifer and Adam takes control of the boulder to crush Clive as he just stands there like a complete dumbass.
Miss: So Clayton is bent on wiping out Washington D.C. with the psychic weather machine. Because evil military guy be evil and the script says so.
Hit: But at least the movie provides a reason how Clayton developed his own psychic abilities.
Miss: Clayton talking to Ruben: "Young fool, only now at the end. Do you understand?" Oh fuck off movie!
Miss: *Jennifer and Adam fighting Rick.* This is my geek side talking but how exactly can fire deflect telekinesis?
Miss: Rick is basically a superpowered Elliot Rodger.
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