Basically, "Push" itself is a puzzle for audiences, stirring up their curiosity about the mystery of a world "Push" can give us. The story is not a cliché, but neither a groundbreaking piece. A little boy with Telekinetic potential had to witness his father's murder and let the murderer go. He lately grew up to be a nobody, waiting for fate to unfold the next page of his life. Ended up in Hongkong slums, he encountered a fortune-telling little girl who claimed for help. In the process he found a possible way to avenge his father.
So what is the title "Push"? Does it represent Telekinesis the protagonist holds? Or is it something more? To prevent spoilers,it is left for you to discover. But "Push" the movie can be considered a post-modern narrative, a twisted version of "Heroes" set in HongKong. Again there is very few new elements in the movie except some good fighting scenes. The movie tried too hard to survive the tide of superhero movies in years, but finally falls short of common sense of superhero movies. Normally, a superhero should have more or less some character development, but "Push" just kept introducing new characters like throwing candies until everyone looks dull and flat. Satisfied? Normally, a superhero movie had a world logically explorable and full of surprises in a positive way. But "Push" pushed the audiences to swallow every piece of hard bone of the story, without any satisfying development regarding the connections of each character. An example could be the romance between the male and female lead. Well, it is arguably one of the elements of the movie, but it's neither exciting nor intriguing. The camera occasionally thrills the audiences, but more frequently distract them from the story. Sometimes you feel like you are watching a Kar Wai Wong movie, indicating "Push" takes notes from Wong's classics like Chung King Express. However, skimming grit and streets from Hong Kong does not fulfill the expectations of the audiences of--let's say--common sense.
This is the kind of movie you are gonna walk out saying,"well, I can live with that." and forget it in a few days.
6/10
So what is the title "Push"? Does it represent Telekinesis the protagonist holds? Or is it something more? To prevent spoilers,it is left for you to discover. But "Push" the movie can be considered a post-modern narrative, a twisted version of "Heroes" set in HongKong. Again there is very few new elements in the movie except some good fighting scenes. The movie tried too hard to survive the tide of superhero movies in years, but finally falls short of common sense of superhero movies. Normally, a superhero should have more or less some character development, but "Push" just kept introducing new characters like throwing candies until everyone looks dull and flat. Satisfied? Normally, a superhero movie had a world logically explorable and full of surprises in a positive way. But "Push" pushed the audiences to swallow every piece of hard bone of the story, without any satisfying development regarding the connections of each character. An example could be the romance between the male and female lead. Well, it is arguably one of the elements of the movie, but it's neither exciting nor intriguing. The camera occasionally thrills the audiences, but more frequently distract them from the story. Sometimes you feel like you are watching a Kar Wai Wong movie, indicating "Push" takes notes from Wong's classics like Chung King Express. However, skimming grit and streets from Hong Kong does not fulfill the expectations of the audiences of--let's say--common sense.
This is the kind of movie you are gonna walk out saying,"well, I can live with that." and forget it in a few days.
6/10