Project Power (2020) Review

Project Power Synopsis

A mysterious pill appears on the streets of New Orleans that confers unique superpowers to each person who consumes it. This drug trade has, however, a catch: Nobody knows what power it confers and, moreover, it lasts only five minutes. So someone can become powerful or fast, repel bullets or blend in with the environment, it can also simply explode the instant you take it.

Project Power Review

With the arrival of the pill, the city's crime escalates to dangerous levels, so a local police officer (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) teams up with a teenage drug dealer (Dominique Fishback) and a revenge-motivated ex-soldier (Jamie Foxx) to take on the powerful behind this plan.

In 1967 came the short-lived series Whenever He Took Pills Out. It was about a man who got superpowers after taking a miracle pill. Pills also play a similar role in Netflix's own production, Project Power . However, the new film by Paranormal Activity 3 makers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman is far more humorous than in the series from the 1960s. Her sixth directorial work is like The Old Guard or Tyler Rake: Extractiona surrogate for the elaborate films that were once shown in the cinema until they no longer had a future on the screen due to a lack of franchise affiliation and now found a new home on Netflix. Is poised to Project Power just like The Old Guard benefit that production in addition to a well-known cast basically just a variation of superheroes offers.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, because in Project Power everyone can have a random superpower, at least for five minutes, because that's how long the effect of the new drug Power lasts. This trick would have opened up a variety of possibilities for the makers. Especially when you consider that the USA has been suffering from a kind of drug epidemic for years, Project Power could have been a not necessarily subtle but powerful allegory. Unfortunately, this opportunity is not used. On the other hand, the film clearly stands out from other superhero vehicles because of its aesthetics. It is darker, (sometimes too) jagged in the cut and the setting New Orleans seems authentic and far removed from any Mardi Gras romance. Plus it was a good decision with an Oscar winnerJamie Foxx (Django Unchained) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises) engage two stars who interact most of the time separately and whose connection point is the young dealer Riley ( Dominique Fishback ,The Hate U Give), whose parallel However, ongoing actions have the same weighting and do not slow each other narrative.

And yet Project Power likes to sag after the first, very fast-paced and engaging act and always falls back on clichés that are sometimes less, sometimes more negative. What is, however, is clear and does not affect the good that at least at mid Project Power neat to Drive loses. The film never seems long-winded, but after a very promising start, the directing duo Joost and Schulman succeedno longer maintain the initial freshness. Especially at the finale, her greatest directorial work to date no longer seems genuine, but actually only serves up standards that are interrupted every now and then by one or the other highlight.

Project Power Conclusion

What starts out strong and promising unfortunately becomes a fairly generic and blunt contribution to the topic of superpowers as the term progresses. So much clever could have come from the idea of ​​the film, but the makers decided to play it safe and in the case of "Project Power" that means that action cinema is well made but not really memorable.

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