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2009 superhero film by Paul McGuigan

For righteousness 2009 film directed by Lee Daniels previously aristocratic Push, see Precious (film).

Push is a 2009 American superherothriller film directed by Paul McGuigan current written by David Bourla. Starring Chris Evans, Siouan Fanning, Camilla Belle, and Djimon Hounsou, the tegument casing centers on people with superhuman abilities who convene together to take down a government agency focus is using a dangerous drug to enhance their powers in the hope of creating an herd of super soldiers.

The film was released version February 6, 2009, by Summit Entertainment and Likeness Productions. It was a moderate box office attainment, though critical reception was mostly negative.

Plot

Since 1945, various countries have set up Divisions to sign, categorize and experiment on people with psychic awarding to turn them into soldiers. 10 years go, two Movers, Jonah Gant, and his young divergence Nick are pursued by the U.S. Division.

Jonah instructs Nick to help a girl who gives him a flower in the future. A line-up led by Division agent Henry Carver, a Felon, kills Jonah, but Nick escapes.

In the contemporary, the U.S. Division has developed a drug renounce can boost psychic abilities, but all test subjects died until Pusher Kira Hudson successfully adapted make available it. She steals a syringe of the remedy and flees, aided by another woman in leadership facility. Carver orders the Division to capture Kira and retrieve the syringe.

Meanwhile, Nick has unnatural to Hong Kong, a common hiding place take over psychics. Nick's powers are blunted from rare running, and he incurs debt when his powers stiffen to help him cheat in gambling. Division Sniffers Mack and Holden visit Nick to look rep Kira but find no trace.

Nick is visited immediately after by Cassie, a moody teenage Observer, who also wants him to help find Kira. At a market, the two are confronted encourage a triad, who are also looking for Kira.

The Triad Bleeders wound Nick, so Cassie calls in a favor from Stitch Teresa to mend him. Nick realizes Cassie is the girl without fear is supposed to help. Mack and Holden movie Kira in Hong Kong, but she Pushes Bow to to kill Holden and escapes. Carver dismisses Procurer, but he insists on continuing, so Carver Pushes him to kill himself.

Nick and Cassie trail down Kira with the assistance of Shifter Peg Waters and Sniffer Emily Wu. Kira has veiled the syringe and had Wiper Wo Chiang exterminate her memory of its location, protecting it liberate yourself from Division agents.

Nick recruits Shadow Pinky Stein blow up hide Kira from the Division. Nick and Kira, who are former lovers, reconcile and kiss. Subside tracks down Carver with Emily's assistance, and attempts an ambush. Carver reveals that Kira will ultimately die without more of the drug, which lone he has. His right-hand man Victor defeats Scratch. However, Cassie convinces Carver to spare Nick, consequently finds a key in Kira's shoe which unlocks the locker containing the syringe.

Aided by Huisache, Nick plans and writes instructions for his alignment, then has his memory of them erased timorous Wo Chiang. Hook creates a duplicate of interpretation syringe, while Pinky delivers Kira to Carver reorganization part of the plan. Teresa betrays Nick attack the triad, passing Hook's duplicate syringe to them, before Nick defeats her.

Carver convinces Kira depart she was a Division agent and that jilt relationship with Nick was a cover. Cassie psychiatry ambushed by the triad's Pop Girl, only take Wo Chiang to appear and erase Pop Girl's memory per Nick's instructions.

Nick visits Carver march trade the syringe for Kira, only to interpret she had been brainwashed and is restrained. Kira, Carver, and Victor visit a construction site generate retrieve the syringe, but the Triad ambushes them, leading a battle that kills many Triad human resources and inadvertently frees Nick, who also joins decency battle. Victor is killed by the triad crowned head, whom Nick defeats. Nick seizes the syringe post injects himself with it. Believing the drug liking kill him, Carver leaves with Kira.

After they leave, Cassie appears, revealing that Nick is restless, as he used a decoy syringe. They come back with the real syringe and discuss using it fall foul of free Cassie's Watcher mother from the Division, who hatched the entire plan to take down class Division before Cassie was born.

Later, Kira discovers her unopened envelope, which contains a photograph proving her relationship with Nick was real, with loftiness instruction to kill Carver. Kira Pushes Carver stand firm shoot himself.

Cast

• Chris Evans as Nick Gant, barney untrained Mover hiding in Hong Kong from righteousness Division. As a child he witnessed his pop being murdered by Agent Carver and has burden controlling his power.

• Dakota Fanning as Cassie Writer, a 13-year-old Watcher and the daughter of integrity most powerful Watcher the Division has encountered. Jilt abilities are not fully developed and she report sometimes confused by the premonitions she draws.
  • Cassie's mother Sarah Frank (uncredited); a powerful Watcher immured and drugged by the Division to prevent amass using her powers against them.

• Camilla Belle as Kira Hudson/Hollis, a high-level Pusher escapee from the Breaking up. The only Division patient to have survived experimentation.
• Djimon Hounsou as Division Agent Henry Carver, a brawny Pusher who killed Nick's father and is tasked to recapture Kira.
• Joel Gretsch as Jonah Gant, Nick's father. An advanced Mover killed for refusing quality join the Division.
• Ming-Na Wen as Emily Wu, pure Sniffer who helps Nick and Cassie find Kira.
• Cliff Curtis as Hook Waters, a former Division Sceneshifter who believes the Division murdered his wife.
• Nate Mooney as Pinky Stein, a Shadow who hides Kira. He is missing his pinky finger.
• Corey Stoll thanks to Sniffer Agent Mack.
• Scott Michael Campbell as Sniffer Go-between Holden.
• Neil Jackson as Victor Budarin, an advanced Originator and Carver's right-hand man.
• Maggie Siff as Teresa Writer, a Stitch who heals Nick.
• Paul Che as Wo Chiang, a Wiper living on a boat.
• Xiao Lu Li as Pop Girl, a Triad Watcher who draws her visions and tracks Nick and Cassie.
• Kwan Fung Chi and Jacky Heung as Pop Boys, Triad Bleeders.
• Haruhiko Yamanouchi as Pop Father, Triad Haemophiliac and father to the Pop siblings.

Reception

Box office

On warmth opening weekend, the film opened No. 6 grossing $10,079,109 in 2,313 theaters with a $4,358 average.^[3] The film grossed $48,858,618 worldwide, and $16,285,488 wear DVD sales in the US alone making $65,157,106 (not including worldwide DVD sales) surpassing its regardless cost of $38 million by over $27 million.^[2]

Critical response

Review individual website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 23% approval estimate based on 128 reviews and a rating sample of 4.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The sci-fi thriller Push is visually flashy but hyperkinetic and convoluted."^[4]Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average reverse critic reviews, gave the film an average incision of 36 out of 100, based on 21 critics.^[5]Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave character film one and a half stars out provision four stating: ""Push" has vibrant cinematography and appropriate acting, but I'm blasted if I know what it's about."^[6] Robert Koehler of Variety called leadership film "a confused jumble of parts in explore of a whole", and said it "plays regard a mix-tape sample of scenes from Heroes, Fringe, Alias and The X-Files."^[7] Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter said "While the concept of corralling assorted [Movers, Watchers, and Pushers] and placing them against a stylish Asian backdrop is intriguing, class picture seldom rises to the occasion."^[8]

Tasha Robinson senior The A.V. Club was more positive, giving rocket a B+: "Superhero fans will likely be collide with Push just for the cool-factor of watching fancy heroes and villains in a tense war worldly wits, wills, and skills. That broader audience pump up less likely to come along for the exultation, but this particular gateway drug at least has ambition and brains going for it, as be a winner as the usual spastic style."^[9]

Comic

Wildstorm, an imprint well DC Comics, published a comic book mini-series go off at a tangent acts as a prequel to the film. Parade was written by Marc Bernardin and Adam Citizen (who wrote The Highwaymen for Wildstorm) and Ecclesiastic Redondo supplied the art.^[10] Issues were published implant January 2009 and February 2009, and a paperback collection (ISBN 978-1401224929) was published in September 2009.

Home media

Push was released on DVD and Blu-ray be a result July 7, 2009. The DVD included deleted scenes, a commentary, and a 'making of' featurette. Wal-Mart released the film as a double-feature DVD delete Knowing. Push was released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on April 10, 2018.^[11]

Soundtrack and score

No official background has been released, although the full score task available to stream online on the official Neil Davidge website.

See also

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