Let’s face it, if you haven’t fantasized about having telekinetic powers and being able to move things with your mind, then you just don’t have any imagination. I think everyone has daydreamed about being able to, say, TK’ing a mug into the back of their boss’s head from all the way across the office at one point or another. That seems to be the main power of Chris Evans’ character in Paul McGuigan’s sci-fi movie “Push”. The film also co-stars Camilla Belle and Dakota Fanning, and is due out in theaters sometime next year. New images and poster from the movie below.
I’ve been hearing about Paul McGuigan’s “Push” for the longest time, and have wanted to see it for just as long. The whole idea behind “Push” is the sort of stuff that I just love and can’t get enough of, although the idea behind the movie seems to have changed a bit since I first heard about it. Originally, I think the movie was supposed to be about a bunch of American expatriates with powers who ends up doing a heist in a foreign country; now it’s more generic-sounding, with people with powers fleeing an evil organization that, no doubt, wants to harness their abilities for evil deeds. It makes this sound like a Sci Fi Channel Original Movie of the Week, and let me assure you, that is NOT a good thing.
When I first heard the premise for Paul McGuigan’s “Push”, I knew it was immediately right up my alley. How could you not like the idea of a group of Americans living somewhere overseas who uses their telekinetic abilities to pull crimes? Then you throw in an Eeeeeeeeeevil U.S. Government trying to capture them and use their gifts, and you got yourself a pretty decent Saturday night on the Sci Fi Channel. But add Chris Evans, Camilla Belle, and Djimon Hounsou to the cast, and it’s a major motion picture.