If all we're heading for are doom, gloom and global catastrophe then why bother planning for tomorrow when we could just live for today? Cast aside gritty, realist dramas and probing documentaries and plug into an endless cycle of cutesy animation and feel-good romantic comedies. Then there would be no place for a film like Push, a suspense thriller set in a grim, foreboding future and penned by David Bourla, in which the most gifted among us are lab rats for a shadowy government agency known as The Division. This covert organisation rounds up psychics for the express purpose of creating an army capable of controlling every thought and event. Those unwilling to participate in this shadowy enterprise are eliminated. Unfortunately, top-secret experiments to boost the powers of the psychic warriors using a genetically engineered serum always result in death.
No one has survived... until now. Nick Gant (Chris Evans) is a second generation "mover", or telekinetic, who has been on the run ever since Division Agent Henry Carver (Djimon Hounsou) murdered his father. He finds refuge on the streets of Hong Kong, hiding from the "sniffers" who are trained to track down his kind and bring them to Division. When his location is compromised, Nick plans to flee the city, only to encounter 13-year-old Cassie (Dakota Fanning), a "watcher" or clairvoyant, who needs his help to retrieve a suitcase containing �6 million. To find the cash, the girl needs Nick to locate escaped "pusher" Kira (Camilla Belle), the only person to live through Division's experiments, who is able to get inside people's minds and plant false memories. Sceptical at first, Nick eventually agrees. "I haven't even gotten to the bad part yet," adds Cassie sombrely, "we die." Unfortunately, Carver and his right-hand man Victor (Neil Jackson) are also on Kira's trail.
