Now streaming on: Push has vibrant cinematography and decent acting, but I m blasted if I know what it s about. Oh, I understand how the characters are paranormals, and how they re living in a present that was changed in the past, among enemies who are trying to change the future. I know they can read minds and use telekinesis to move things. I know they re a later generation of a Nazi experiment gone wrong, and the U.S. Army wants them for super-soldiers.
But that s all simply the usual horsefeathers to set up the situation. What are they
doing? The answer to that involves a MacGuffin that would have Hitchcock harrumphing and telling Alma, Oh, dear, they really have allowed themselves to get carried away. The MacGuffin is a briefcase. Yes, like in Pulp Fiction, but this time we know what s in it. It s a drug or serum that kills paranormals. And the Division desperately wants it.