Push

Push operates on more than one level. Sure it's about a bunch of psychic misfits who battle a mysterious government agency called the Division, all taking place in Hong Kong but the comic book aspects are overcome by the plot's density. The story's character are driven beings with emphasis on their discomfort with being different. Many of the scenes have a high contrast look with striking use of light in the background, and the architecture takes in the fact that bamboo is as strong as steel. Hong Kong makes a nifty location especially a movie like Push that plays with HK's high rise graphic as a near future sci fi metropolis, not to mention the look is the complete opposite of Batman's excursion into the Asian city (in Dark Knight).
Push was directed by Paul McGuigan who has, while not stabbing viewers with his vision, done some interesting work with plot and characterization in Wicker Park (not as good as the French original) and Lucky Number Slevin. The cast includes Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Maggie Siff, Cliff Curtis, Djimon Hounsou among others. It's like the director told the actors to just knock it out of the park and they acquiesced.
Division wants to control all the Pushers (can plant ideas in your head), Movers (telekinetic), and a host of other super ability monikers that these uncanny miscreants of society go by. Push makes no effort to really organize all its facts in digestible fashion; the film almost demands an alert viewer ready to roll with characters that appear once or twice and yet are intrinsic to the story.
McGuigan doesn't so much play against convention as embellish convention and Push has the ability to produce "oh yeah" moments of movie going pleasure, many of which are triggered by the vision of a dystopian society one nuance away from today. At the same time launching into a techno-rock beat at the onset of action has a Matrix feel that no film will escape for many years.