Movie Mistakes in Push

As much as Knowing and Push were marketed together, I found the differences between the two to be pretty surprising—especially in the fact that Knowing started awesomely and got worse throughout the movie while Push sort of did a here-and-there impressive scene followed by more nothingness.

Neither one really delivered on their premises, though I’d recommend Push before Knowing, which sort of gave me some post-Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull blues, though to a much lesser degree.

During the film, I thought I had noticed a few discrepancies and thought I’d look them up. It turns out that there were a handful of such errors in the movie.

Dude, where’s my gun? Before the creepy “sniffers” (and I really think there are people out there who do this, don’t you? Perhaps they aren’t great trackers but you know they’re out there smelling toothbrushes and empty containers of Sure) visit Nick, he tuckes his gun beneath a cloth in his drawer. But when he goes back to get the gun, it’s magically uncovered. Perhaps the gun is telekinetic, too, which would make up for Nick’s crappy use of his own powers.

Where did the gun go? We see Nick helplessly locked away in the trunk during the start of the construction site shootout, but once freed we also see him clearly pick up two guns. He continues to hold them both until he begins shooting, when he suddenly only has one gun.

People who throw stones shouldn’t work in glass scenes: In the last fight of the movie, the two guys who are thrown against a sheet of glass magically make it shatter before hitting it—quite a feat, wouldn’t you say?

And all that said, what the hell is up with the screamers? Those dudes blew up fish and Nick’s vital organs at the beginning of the movie, but later on everybody needs guns instead of these dudes’ banshee-like “talents”? I suppose they could easily blow up other people while not meaning to, hence the guns to deliver targeted shots; but at the restaurant earlier, there were plenty of people that they weren’t aiming at, either—including their Kill Bill-esque sister—whom they could have easily killed if that were the case.

What did you think of Push—or Knowing, for that matter? Either one worth your time? Which was the better of the two—or, if you like, the one that was less painful to watch?