Push (2009)

Score: 4/10

Push is a movie about people who get special abilities due to some kind of experiment to create super soldiers. Since the war has ended in the 40s, governments around the world create a department called Division to contain these special people. Furthermore, the government also continues the experience because they want to enhance their abilities. A special drug is created for this purpose, but the drug is likely to kill those people rather than boosting their powers.

There are different abilities in the movie and people are classified based on these abilities. Watchers are people who can see the future. Bleeders can scream so loud that they can burst your blood vessels. Movers can move objects with their mind, while sniffers have ability to track people by sniffing on objects that those people have touched. Stitchers can heal injuries, but they can injure you as well. Wipers can erase your memories and shadows can hide people from sniffers and partially from watchers. Shifter can change an appearance of objects for a certain period of time. There is ability that can put thoughts into your mind and I believe they are called pushers.

In the movie, we follow Nick (Chris Evans), a mover who lives in Hong Kong. Two Division agents visit Nick looking for a woman that has the government secret of the boosting power drug. Not long after, Cassie (Dakota Fanning), a young watcher, also comes looking for the same woman. She and Nick teams up to find that woman.

The woman is Kira (Camilla Belle), a pusher who has survived the experiment and stolen the drug. There are many parties interested to find Kira so Cassie and Nick have to protect her and make sure that the secret drug is safe. There are some action sequences and deceiving plots throughout the movie. In the end, everything has been predicted and planned by Cassie’s mom, the greatest watcher ever.

The movie is super confusing. There are so many loop holes which do not make any sense to me. I cannot follow the plot and I have no idea what was going on. The writers should be pushed over a cliff in my opinion. There are many nonsense occasions throughout the movie. A mover who cannot even move a dice properly can suddenly become so great that he can beat one of the best movers in the world. A mover hides behind a column during a gun fight while he actually can easily block bullets. I have no idea why people put handcuff to a mover who can easily break that handcuff.

The list continues. There is a bleeder who stupidly screams extremely loud under an unbalanced structure. If you can influence other people minds, why do you wait so long until those people shoot thousands of bullets at you? Why do you use guns to kill people who have special abilities like pushers and movers? They have successfully ambushed those people, but they blow up their covers without any apparent reasons. The government who has the best sniffers in the world cannot catch Kira first. On and on, I can continue forever.

The acting is not special whatsoever. Normally Dakota can always save a movie, but here she looks lost. We cannot feel her predicament, although the scene is supposed to be moving. Basically Push is failed because the movie is trying to do too much. Everything is too complicated. If only the movie is a bit simpler without those stupid crazy plots, it should be quite entertaining. The only good thing about the movie is the action sequences. Some of them are good, although they are too short to redeem the movie from utter gibberish.

If you want to get more information about Push, you can visit:
- IMDB: Push (2009)
- The official Push movie site

"I can push bullets!"