In the middle of Push, our hero hatches a fiendish plan that will come to govern the rest of the narrative. "What if nothing we do makes any sense?" he says. Think of that as the scriptwriter's equivalent of an ejector seat.
Prior to this, Chris Evans is a telekinetic trying to save a psychic (Dakota Fanning) whose visions of the future may or may not come true. But after that it ceases to matter. Look, there's a Japanese man who makes fish explode just by shouting at them. And look, there's a forcefield where previously there wasn't one.
In time this would-be thriller comes to rest with a fist fight, a hanging ending and the implicit promise of a sequel. Of all the calamities that Fanning predicts, Push 2 is one she missed.