PUSH Blu-ray review
Bundled in with the main movie you’ll find a lively and occasionally insightful commentary track featuring Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning and Paul McGuigan. They discuss such delights as the positives and negatives of acting entirely on location in Hong Kong, crucial editing and shooting decisions, and the smell of fish markets on hot filming days. In addition there are 4 deleted scenes, none of which are particularly interesting, although one does provide insight into the fate of a key character, which the movie leaves unresolved. These are all accompanied by optional commentary from McGuigan. Finally there’s a strange little featurette entitled ‘The Science Behind The Fiction’, which feels like a making-of, but is really a sort of Discovery Channel style expose of the “true” stories of secret psychic experiments during the Cold War.
Push comes in a standard Blu-ray case enclosed in a lenticular sleeve, which is fun for about two seconds until it dawns on you to just put the disc in and see the actors actually moving about. Still, it’s nice that someone’s thinking of these things.
There is nothing clever left to say. This movie just sucks.
BIAS
I’m going to put my cards on the table here and say that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of movies such as this. There’s something about giving super powers to characters in films that has always made me feel like the writers are cheating a bit. I know that’s unfair, and there are many superb films in existence which make wonderful use of the creative possibilities offered by such character traits, but it’s a prejudice I appear to be stuck with and it’s something that it takes a really, seriously good sci-fi comic book-esque action film to overturn. Push is, as you might have guessed by now, not one of those. Even if you’re a fan of the genre, you’ll still be largely disappointed by this incoherent, though occasionally attractive mess.
Verdict:
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