Push Review

Sometimes it happens that in the first few frames of a movie, you know you’re watching one of the clunkers of the year.

Try ‘Push’, which painstakingly explains that there are some people - very few of course, but some, imbued with secret supernational powers, telekinesis or psychic powers and that our government is trying to harness them into a super species of warriors.

How does this kind of movie get sold?

‘Push’ is often revolting, often impossible to understand. Chris Evans who co-starred in ‘The Fantastic Four’ is the star of the film and he’s inherited his late father’s telekinetic powers.

Most of the action takes place in Hong Kong, which is probably a cheaper shooting location.

And this is basically one endless fight movie.

Djimon Hounsou turns up as the chief agent of a division—the super secret government agency.

He’s tracking down these people and he’s helped by two thugs—played by actors you probably never saw before.

Oh and Dakota Fanning of all people shows up as well.

She’s searching for her mother and has psychic powers and teams with Evans’ character to elude their pursuers.

Push is just a ‘Matrix’ and a bit of the’X-Men’, minus the fancy leather coats and it’s just as incomprehensible.

It’s violent and shows a woman being beaten—that always offends me in a movie—and it has no point.

It’s one of those films wherein you want the characters to just go away and leave you alone.