Project Power Review

Netflix s enjoyable project power which is not inspired by any graphic novel joins the club with a plot about superpowers that come from taking an illegal pill.

Project power review. Project power is not a superhero movie. Netflix s project power misses the potentiality of its relevant themes and intriguing concept for an overwrought reconception of the superhero narrative. Favored by thugs the underworld. Jamie foxx anchors a druggie superpower action thriller from netflix a sinister drug turns ordinary people invincible for five minutes in a visually busy conspiracy.

Ye olde bangs scares and clichés jamie foxx heads up this very busy and familiar action movie which also stars joseph gordon levitt and dominique fishback. Project power takes place in new orleans and there are a few veiled references to hurricane katrina and the government s poor emergency response as well as the opioid crisis and the systemic. Superheroes only a pill away side effects may occur high concept star heavy netflix action movie imagines a world where a street drug can turn anyone in to a comic. Directors joost and schulman have come a.

The title is a tad generic but project power is fast paced pulpy fun with plenty of big action set pieces and enough sly humor to conjure the escape of the multiplex. You might think netflix s project power sounds a little unoriginal. It s a sci fi actioner about a drug that gives folks superpowers for five minutes the idea being that most folk would use such powers to commit crime rather.