Director: Paul McGuigan
Hong Kong's neon backstreets hide a shadow war of telekinetics, mind-readers, and shifters in "Push" (2024), a chase thriller where the real weapon is whatever strange gift each character was born with.
What is Push about?
Nick and Cassie are two Americans living off-grid in Hong Kong, each carrying an ability they'd rather keep hidden — his lets him move objects with his mind, hers lets her glimpse fragments of the future. Those gifts put them squarely in the sights of Division, a covert agency that has spent decades trying to breed and control people like them. When a girl carrying a case that could expose or destroy Division's program goes missing, Nick and Cassie find themselves racing rival factions of gifted operatives through markets, alleys, and safe houses to reach her first. Director Paul McGuigan treats the city itself as a maze of watchers and watched, building tension less through spectacle than through the constant uncertainty of who can see what coming.
Cast & crew
Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning lead as Nick and Cassie, with Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou, Cliff Curtis, and Ming-Na Wen filling out a roster of operatives whose loyalties keep shifting through the chase.
Context & significance
Released in 2024 and shot largely on location in Hong Kong, "Push" belongs to the mid-2000s wave of grounded superpower thrillers that favored street-level tension over costumes and origin stories. Its ensemble of psychics and telekinetics functions more like a spy-movie roster of specialists than a superhero team, which keeps the plotting closer to a heist than a rescue.
Where & how to watch
"Push" is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the plot's twists without losing the original English performances. Anyone can read this page and browse the catalog without signing in; watching the film itself only requires a free K-Time account. The whole platform is built with the Iranian diaspora in mind, with a Farsi-first browsing experience throughout.