2009 · sci-fi · action · adventure
Push
1h 51m2009
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.
Our read: Push (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal sci-fi · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, tender.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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“You want neon Hong Kong psychic pulp even if the plot feels like a graphic novel spilled open.”
Skip it tonight — Convoluted superpower lore and bleak government conspiracy will lose you by act two.
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