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| Directed by | Paul McGuigan |
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| Produced by | Bruce Davey William Vince Glenn Williamson |
| Written by | David Bourla |
| Starring | Chris Evans Dakota Fanning Camilla Belle Djimon Hounsou |
| Distributed by | Summit Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | February 6, 2009 |
| Running time | 111 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $38,000,000 |
| Official website • IMDb | |
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Push is a 2009 American science fiction thriller film directed by Paul McGuigan. The film stars Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Djimon Hounsou, and Camilla Belle. The plot centers around a group of Psychic people, as well as others with varying powers, who band together to attempt to take down a government agency that is using a dangerous drug to enhance the powers of Movers, Pushers, Watchers, Wipers etc.
The film has received generally poor reviews by critics on its original release with critics claiming the film to be "visually flashy but hyperkinetic and convoluted".[2]
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Premise
During the Holocaust, the Nazis created a generation of people with paranormal abilities, which would prove hereditary. After the war ended, these people were sought by the world's governments, and organized into intelligence and regulatory agencies known as "Divisions". Over the course of the next fifty years, these Divisions experimented upon and catalogued these individuals. By the present day, the only remaining Division is the one run by the U.S. government, all other Divisions having been destroyed in the course of the Cold War or subjugated from within. These individuals are categorized thus;
- Movers have telekinesis; they are able to move objects, including living organisms, without touching them. Sufficiently skilled movers can apply this force as powerful blows capable of shattering concrete, and produce shields that can diffuse damage and even deflect bullets.
- Pushers can "push" specific thoughts, memories, and emotions into their targets. This technique can be used to gain a subject's trust or to make them perform any action, even suicide, without question. Skilled pushers can implant complex histories into a subject, convincing them that an ally murdered a loved one, or that they are actually an ally themselves.
- Watchers are clairvoyant; they experience visions of the future and typically record their visions in sketch books. Watchers can read a target's intentions, meaning that they can know what a person has decided to do before they actually do it. The future is typically not static; when a watcher becomes directly involved in the events he or she foresees, those events tend to change more rapidly. A Watcher's skill is primarily rated by how far they can see into the future and how well they interpret these visions.
- Bleeders have the ability to emit high-pitched sonic vibrations that can inflict intense damage on living tissue and inanimate objects, either as an area or precision attack. The Chinese Division bred a significant number of these individuals, who overthrew their handlers and now conduct themselves as a powerful organized crime family.
- Sniffs possess a form of psychometry; by either smelling or touching an object, they can see either the object's history or the current whereabouts and activities of the object's owner. Depending on the individual sniff and the situation, he or she may see images related to the target or they may receive a directional sense of the target's location.
- Shifters can transmute objects on a temporary basis. The object remains in its changed form even when no longer in the shifter's possession, but it will eventually revert, for example a one dollar bill a shifter changed to a hundred dollar bill could stay that way for hours.
- Wipers can erase memories. They can erase specific events or specific durations of time. These erasures can be used as a defense against a Watcher's clairvoyance, as they can only perceive actions as a chain of events - if a target forgets his motivations, his actions can no longer be predicted.
- Shadows are able to shield an area from detection via other powers. It is generally believed that a shadow can only block detection by sniffs, but it is discovered that a sufficiently powerful shadow can also hide a target from watchers.
- Stitchers can perform psychic surgeries, instantly repairing or inflicting lethal trauma.
Plot
The opening scene shows two "movers", Nick Gant and his father on the run from the "Division." Realizing that escape is impossible, Nick's father tells him of a vision he received from a Watcher; a girl will give him a flower, he is to do what she says in order to "save us all." He then throws him through an air vent as Agent Henry Carver of Division arrives and kills him.
Ten years later, an adult Nick Gant (Chris Evans) is an expatriate in Hong Kong. Though he attempts to use his ability to make a living, he displays a poor skill at "moving" and is not successful at a local dice game, leaving him in debt to a local Triad - which happens to be controlled by "bleeders" bred by the defunct Chinese Division. And the American Division has located him; two "sniffs" to demand if he has seen a certain girl. One of them psychically reads about Nick's actions in this apartment, and finds out he hasn't yet met the girl.
Following the encounter Nick meets up with a young girl named Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning), herself a Watcher. She says that they must find a certain woman before they all die. Following a number of encounters with the local Chinese gangs, Nick is critically injured by a Bleeder. Cassie brings him a Stitcher to heal his broken body. She then gives him a flower, and Nick recalls the words of his father, knowing he has to help her.
Elsewhere, a Pusher girl, artificially augmented by Division One, escapes a fortified government lab and stows away on a boat. Promptly captured once again by Division One, she uses her powers to psychically trick one of the guards to kill another. After a heated fight she runs loose and manages to meet up by chance with Cassie and Nick.
The escapee, named Kira, ends up being hidden by a Shadow named Pinky so that Sniffs will not find her. Nick comes up with an elaborate plan that involves seven envelopes in which he puts instructions in; each person in their group is entrusted one envelope, and none are supposed to open them until the time to act is right. Unfortunately, Division One manages to capture Kira again, and they use a man named Carver to make her believe that she is a Division agent all along, having volunteered to take the augmentation injection.
Following several conflicts, Cassie predicts they will see Kira again. Kira, on a flight with Agent Henry Carver, opens her purse and reads her instructions, contained in a red envelope, the last to be opened. A picture of Kira and Nick at Coney Island a message reads, " Kill him. See you soon, Nick." Here she "pushes" the thought to agent Carver's mind to commit suicide. A gunshot is heard.
Cast and characters
- Nick Gant (Chris Evans) is a Mover living in Hong Kong in order to stay hidden from Division, who killed his father.
- Cassie Holmes (Dakota Fanning) is the daughter of the greatest Watcher Division has ever encountered, and a Watcher in her own right.
- Kira Hudson (Camilla Belle) is a Pusher, a recent escapee of Division, and the only Division patient to have survived experimentation.
- Agent Henry Carver (Djimon Hounsou) is a Division agent and the powerful Pusher that killed Nick's father.
