Project Power

Name: Project Power
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Crime
Released: August 14, 2020
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Allen Maldonado, Amy Landecker, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Casey Neistat, Colson Baker

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): August 14, 2020 | R

Starring: Allen Maldonado, Amy Landecker, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Casey Neistat, Colson Baker, Courtney B. Vance, Dominique Fishback, Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Machine Gun Kelly, Michael Thomas, Rodrigo Santoro, Tait Fletcher, Yoshi Sudarso

Summary: 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 theOn 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.… Expand

Director: Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost

Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 113 min

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Leah Greenblatt

Aug 13, 2020

For all the patently corny bits and some 17 attempts at an ending, Power still somehow makes it easy to suspend your disbelief and your imaginary degree in biochemistry, and just let it ride. Read full review

Johnny Oleksinski

Aug 13, 2020

There is enough detail and psychological nuance in Mattson Tomlin’s clever script to make Project Power more intriguing than most of what Marvel and DC have to offer, even if it could barely match their catering budgets. Read full review

Clint Worthington

Aug 13, 2020

Project Power is a hard-R action flick with a neat premise, inventively handled, and a winsome cast to coast us through the creakier bits of the screenplay. More crucially, it’s also got a sense of humor about itself. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Aug 13, 2020

It’s a lot for one film, and Project Power never revs up enough gusto to power through its biggest, best ideas and deliver on their promise. Perhaps the (inevitable) sequel can pack more juice. Read full review

Katie Rife

Aug 13, 2020

You might as well spend a couple hours with this film on in the background, but don’t expect much about it to stick with you—except for the jaw-dropping Henrietta Lacks monologue. You may need to pop a pill to forget that. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Aug 13, 2020

Project Power has propulsion, little detonations of visual magic, the resonant setting of a still desperate New Orleans, and a better cast than a movie like this one tends to have. Yet watching it, you may find yourself aware of how patched together the whole thing is. Read full review

Derek Smith

Aug 13, 2020

The film is an unwieldy array of muddled ideas that never gel together into a cohesive whole. Read full review

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Mimilaf

Aug 21, 2020

Fantastic movie. Didn’t expect anything and LOVED it! Great acting, I hope we see her again.

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Passionate_Red

Jan 17, 2023

Pretty good action told from interesting perspectives.

I'd probably rate it lower of I watched it again...

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Dubeau

Aug 16, 2020

Project Power has some good points going for it. The story is different and more interesting. However there is some blurry things about the involvement of the army or the government. It's not very well explained. The FX are really good especially with displaying the powers. The acting isProject Power has some good points going for it. The story is different and more interesting. However there is some blurry things about the involvement of the army or the government. It's not very well explained. The FX are really good especially with displaying the powers. The acting is solid from the main actors. The secondary are average. The music is decent. I give it 70%. Mainly because I like the performance of the actors, and visually, the movie is different.… Expand

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mxfredman

Aug 17, 2020

This movie is **** from the first minute! Just as the old guard it's cringe, netflix can't make a good action movie

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Joaoogbriel

Aug 15, 2020

The film's full potential is thrown away with a boring cliche story with poorly developed characters.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

CyberNick

Aug 17, 2020

Nice production with quality and good cast, but a flat story that in some points make no sense, No memorable villians, and no protagonist chemestry

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pogelwoodcancer

Aug 16, 2020

An absolute mess. Halfway through i had to go look up Jamie Foxx's most recent films to see how he could of possibly been talked into making this dumpster fire. This film is jarringly bad. From the nonsensical sub plot of the streetwise hoodrat poet to having hardly any screen timeAn absolute mess. Halfway through i had to go look up Jamie Foxx's most recent films to see how he could of possibly been talked into making this dumpster fire. This film is jarringly bad. From the nonsensical sub plot of the streetwise hoodrat poet to having hardly any screen time whatsoever with the two main leads interacting... it's a tired, tropey, disjointed fluster cuck.… Expand

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