Don't worry, those clothes will be clean in the next scene.

I really enjoyed the first season of the tv series Heroes. Well I did up until the very final episode, at which point it just seemed to become a bit rubbish. About 7 episodes into the second season I stopped watching that entirely in favour of watching more exciting things, like water evaporating. So I was half expecting a similar genre film called Push to be just a tad crap too, perhaps being somewhere inbetween films like Next (at worst) or Jumper (at best).

After the first half hour, Push was looking distinctly like we were heading for the Nicholas Cage end of that spectrum. We were introduced to a pretty bland main character, Nick, and an ever so slightly annoying 14 year old, Cassie. Then when some Hong Kong dudes turn up with special powers of just being able to shout loudly and we started getting lots of arty camerawork, I began to think that hoping to even reach the dizzy heights of Next was perhaps a bit optimistic.

Fortunately, Push started to come together and slowly develops into quite an entertaining watch. There’s some nice ideas lurking, even if they don’t all work or make sense. What did kinda bug me though is that some really obvious things aren’t explained, like how Nick goes from being unable to successfully move a couple of dice in the first few minutes of the film to turning into full-strength Neo from the Matrix minutes later? Where did he buy that magic self cleaning sweater? And why do we see quite so much of Dakota Fanning’s legs? She’s 14! Anyone else feel a tad uncomfortable with that or was it just me?

Annnnyway. If you’re looking for a reasonably enjoyable flick for a couple of hours you could do worse than watching Push. Just try and stop yourself from being distracted by Sly Stallone looky-likey Cliff Curtis, like I did. Again.

7/10 (bonus points for featuring a big sign in the background of one shot advertising “King Fook Jewellery”, which I found strangely amusing).