Silliness rules the day: plot holes abound and are plugged with techno-pounding action sequences and more nonsensical guff. As a TV pilot, this might have worked; as a film, it's loud, confusing and inane.
Push
One push can change everything.
2009 · 1h 51m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Paul McGuigan
Overview
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
Director and cast
- Paul McGuigan Director
- Dakota Fanning as Cassie Holmes
- Camilla Belle as Alyssa English
- Chris Evans as Nick Gant
- Djimon Hounsou as Agent Henry Carver
- Maggie Siff as Teresa Stowe
- Cliff Curtis as Hook
- Joel Gretsch as Nick's Father
- Neil Jackson as Victor Budarin
- Nate Mooney as Pinky Stein
- Colin Ford as Young Nick
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Paul McGuigan's jittery editing and shaky cameras make the action confusing rather than thrilling, and nothing can save this movie from the screenplay's nearly incomprehensible twists.
Belle... is blank as a page, and the intended romantic chemistry between her and Evans is never in evidence.
Push has vibrant cinematography and decent acting, but I'm blasted if I know what it's about.
There are many problems with Push, and most are the usual boring things: unnecessary plot loops; long, dumb musical interludes; a charmless script; and ostentatious action sequences in which the only person excited is the cameraman.
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