17 years later, Chris Evans' criminally underseen superhero movie deserves another shot

The film about warring psychics felt like it could easily have started a new superhero series The opening credits of the 2009 film Push are packed with so much exposition and terminology it feels like director Paul McGuigan and writer David Bourla are introducing viewers to an entire superhero universe. Instead, it ended with a single film. Push was part of the trend of cape-free superhero stories led by the 2006 premiere of Heroes that was quickly eclipsed by the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But Push stands on its own thanks to an excellent cast and rich setting, and it’s definitely worth watching for fans of Stranger Things, Sense8, and X-Men. The world of Push is filled with psychics, who are neatly categorized into power sets with names like Movers (telekinetics), Watchers (precognitives), and Pushers (people with mind control). There are also Bleeders (people with the power to blow things up by screaming). Chris Evans stars as Nick Grant, a Mover whose control over his power is so mediocre he can’t even manage to use it to cheat at dice games. Nick lives a sad, lonely life in Hong Kong, just trying to avoid being captured by Division, the shady government organization that kille