My first thought, from only seeing the trailer: Wasn't this plot line (including the same powers) already explored in the television program Heroes?

This review is total fluff.

Chris Evans is an actor with a future. He was good in "Sunshine," and the only thing that wasn't shitty in the Fantastic Four movies.

well. the fact that a stranger critic hates a movie is good enough for me to realize that it is probably awesome. Ever notice how stranger film reviews are focused on how many creative negative things they can say? and all this in a story with a "back to the future" banner? jesus fucking christ. Can we please be a little stupider with our reviewing? Please? Your review isn't quite stupid enough. You know, don't they teach people in film school you are supposed to "suspend your disbelief" in order to accept the reality that the film is trying to offer? Push is a WORK OF FICTION,YOU DUMBASS. THE REASON PEOPLE WRITE FICTION IS SO THEY CAN MAKE THEIR CHARACTERS DO WHATEVER THEY WANT. That's why it's called FICTION.

ps. PLEASE. DON'T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB- YOU MIGHT TRY WRITING ABOUT A MOVIE THAT YOU CAN HANDLE WATCHING LIKE " BACK TO THE FUTURE" OOPS SORRY. I FORGOT , THAT'S A WORK OF FICTION, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LIKE THAT EITHER.

Oh my gosh, I LOVED Jumper. When I saw the previews for Push, it looked like the same stupid Jumper story warmed over. Yes! I'm glad I was right.

I appreciate the review, it is honest and well written. I like knowing what I'm getting into.

Cassie? I don't get it. Please explain!!

Okay, weird. I just posted two comments and they're gone.

Well, most importantly, why is her name Cassie? I don't get it....

oops....

cassie = cassandra = some lady who predicted the burning of troy

This must be the first occurrence in history of the adjective "pretty" being applied to Sean William Scott. Really, Paul? Have you ever seen pictures of him, or noticed what type of roles he gets cast in? He's more of a hot-Neanderthal type (Stifler, Chester, etc.).

Hey Real Guy (if that IS your real name!): STFU. Suspension of disbelief is not an iron-clad defense against criticism. Fiction is still an art form, and still has rules, conventions, interesting restrictions. If we just say, "hell with it, everything is great because the viewer can't expect anything!" then movies should just be 2 hours of fart noises. See what I'm saying? Yeah, you do.

Howdy real guy,

I have an idea: Why don't you actually watch the movie you're defending and then come back and complain about my reviewing? Also: I loved Back to the Future. Push is not Back to the Future. It's nowhere near as good.

Big Sven: Agreed on Sunshine, but this movie lands in the Chris Evans "fail" category, along with Fantastic Four. Unless he can make his work a little more uniform, he might not have a future.

@Paul in reply to Big Sven:
Yes, but isn't that more a function of the roles themselves than of Chris Evans' work in them? Give him a decent role (Sunshine), and he can do good things in it. Give him a little room in an otherwise negligible movie (Cellular, that teen movie parody) and at least he can bring some energy to it. Give him an inert piece of cheese (Push, Fantastic Four) and trying to look concerned and fading into the background is as much as anybody could do with it. You can't turn badly written plot exposition into Hamlet's soliloquy by mere force of will.

And it would be silly to say, well he should only pick good scripts then. Expecting uniform work is unrealistic given the constraints of the industry. I think at least 90% of movie scripts don't require (or in many cases even allow) the actors to do any actual acting at all -- not only the usual Hollywood clunkers but underwritten indie films too.

Hey David,

This is an interesting point, but I think that a good actor can bring something even to an inert piece of cheese. Bill Murray has done more than his share of junk movies, but he's always at least vaguely interesting. Push did manage to suck the life out of some good actors, though—Hounsou, the occasionally charming Dakota Fanning—so I think the jury's still out. The question I have about Evans is: Does he need a good director to force a good performance out of him, or can he become a leading man in even the most generic of tripe?

Also: Apparently, my heterosexuality has betrayed me, and Sean William Scott is not pretty. I apologize for the error.

Hi Paul,
I almost said "only a straight man would call Sean William Scott pretty," but that seemed wrong somehow.

I have come to stop reading the stranger's reviews on films because they tend to lack anything substantial in judgement of movies. I am convinced that the person who write these views has never seen a movie.

"I have come to stop reading the stranger's reviews on films"

So, hold on: you clicked over to this review and skipped past the text just to let everyone know how cool you are because you don't read the reviews? Brilliant.

cassie = cassandra = in classical mythology she was given the ability to see the future, but was cursed so that no one would believe her. is that what happens to fanning's character? at least they got it half right, i suppose.

Thank you .... and Outis! I see.