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‘Project Power’: Short-term superheroes have some exciting battles in vibrant thriller
Aug 14, 2020
“You alone?”
“Aren’t we all?” – Prescient exchange for our times, from “Project Power.”
Anyone can be a superhero in “Project Power.” All you have to do is take a magical glowing pill, and ZAM! BOOM! POW! Just like that, you’re invisible, or you have super-speed, or you can take a bullet to the head and it’ll bounce right off.
A few caveats:
A. You won’t know what your superpower will be until you take the “Power” pill.
B. Your super-duper skills will last only five minutes.
C. There’s a chance you won’t get any magic powers at all and the Power pill will backfire on you. Side effects include the possibility of bursting into flames, being frozen solid and/or death.
That’s the genius concept of the Netflix original movie “Project Power,” a vibrant and crazy and thought-provoking and immensely entertaining film that could have been even more resonant had it not settled for a relatively conventional final act we’ve seen in dozens of thrillers. (The docks. Why do we so often end up with someone being kidnapped and held on the docks, with the inevitable, extended shoot-out to follow?)
Set in a near-dystopian New Orleans where the criminals are running wild and the police force is seemingly powerless to do anything about it, “Project Power” features two veteran big-name stars in Jamie Foxx as Art, a former military man hell-bent on finding the source of the mysterious and chaos-creating Power pills, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Frank, a dedicated N.O.P.D. cop who loves to quote Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry but is hardly a vigilante.
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