Push
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
Our read · Push (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal sci-fi · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Push
What watching it is actually like.
“You want neon Hong Kong psychic pulp even if the plot feels like a graphic novel spilled open.”
Skip it tonight — Convoluted superpower lore and bleak government conspiracy will lose you by act two.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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