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When
a pill that gives its users unpredictable superpowers for five minutes hits the
streets of New Orleans, a teenage dealer and a local cop must team with an
ex-soldier to take down the group responsible for its creation.
Directors: Henry
Joost, Ariel Schulman
Writer: Mattson
Tomlin
Stars: Jamie Foxx,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback
Summaries
When
a pill that gives its users unpredictable superpowers for five minutes hits the
streets of New Orleans, a teenage dealer and a local cop must team with an
ex-soldier to take down the group responsible for its creation.
—Netflix
On
the streets of New Orleans, word begins to spread about a mysterious new pill
that unlocks superpowers unique to each user. The catch: You don't know what
will happen until you take it. While some develop bulletproof skin,
invisibility, and super strength, others exhibit a deadlier reaction. But when
the pill escalates crime within the city to dangerous levels, a local cop
(Joseph Gordon-Levitt) teams with a teenage dealer (Dominique Fishback) and a
former soldier fueled by a secret vendetta (Jamie Foxx) to fight power with
power and risk taking the pill in order to track down and stop the group
responsible for creating it.
—Netflix
Taglines: What would
you risk for 5 minutes of pure power?
Genres: Action |
Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Motion
Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated
R for violence, bloody images, drug content and some language
User
Reviews
2020.
First we had >Extraction. Then we had >The Old Guard. Now, here it is.
The "next step" in the string of mediocre Netflix blockbusters:
>Project Power. Ordinary as they go just from the title. To put it plain and
simple, this movie is basically the zenith of dejà vu. Everything it shows we
have seen before (>Limitless being the most obvious source of
"inspiration").
So,
the realm of originality is somewhere far beyond reach. Anyway, when you have
taken into account the ordinary and derivative nature of it all, you can almost
enjoy yourself. Almost. Because, given its somewhat good premise, the movie
could have been much much better and very much more entertaining. But, being
the end result as it is, it's just a matter of a pretty sad list:
The
plot. Well, the plot is just as much predictable as you could imagine and it's
furthermore just a pretext;
The
script. It doesn't seem to know where to go at times, it "gifts" us
with wanna-be funny one-liners and with a series of never-so-much one
dimensional characters (especially the bad guys);
The
direction. It's simply a drab and can't quite manage to handle the action
scenes, which are always messy or standard;
The
acting. It seems rather listless. There certainly are good actors like Foxx and
Gordon Levitt here, but they don't seem all that interested (and given the
material they had to work with you can understand why).
There
you go: the zenith of deja vu coupled with the apotheosis of the generic and
sometimes stale.
>Project
Power seems at the very least intriguing at first (in the beginning, till the
"Human Torch" scene), but the more it goes on the more you can't help
yourself but wonder what it may have been if it had been written and directed
by a better director and a better screenwriter. In that case maybe a 6 or 7
could've been reached.
But
- as the saying goes - you don't make history with the "ifs". As I
already suggested, being the movie as it is, it's just mediocre.
"Watchable" if you want, but mediocre nonetheless. And a tad little
bit nonsensical if you ask me (and maybe it's really just me, but I'm thinking
right now: why the hell would anybody want to take a pill that they don't even
know if it's gonna work, how it's gonna work and that could pretty much
disintegrate them right away?).
Details
Country: USA
Language: English
Release
Date:
14 August 2020 (USA)
Also Known
As: Project
Power
Filming
Locations:
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Company
Credits
Production
Co: Netflix, Screen Arcade, Supermarché
Technical
Specs
Runtime: 113 min
Color: Color
Aspect
Ratio:
2.00 : 1
