Review: Project Power

Review: Project Power



Hello, Everybody! Today I reviewed the latest Netflix action thriller movie, Project Power. 

While it is also called a Superhero film, I'd like to say otherwise and here's why. The premise of the movie is that a former soldier, played Jamie Foxx teams up with a teenage girl, played by Dominique Fishback and a cop, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt to find the source behind a dangerous pill that gives you superpowers... for only 5 minutes. A movie where characters have powers for only 5 minutes doesn't make it a superhero movie! That's just my opinion.

I'm very very mixed about this movie, first off I loved the cast particularly Dominique Fishback. She was really good in it, she carried this whole movie and I'm looking forward to what's in store for her next. Oh! And Machine Gun Kelly! I mostly watched this movie just because he was in it. He's one of my favorite musicians ever and I absolutely can't wait for his next album. He's also a pretty good actor too, I watched him in The Dirt and Bird Box. 

The direction from Henry Joost and Ariel Schulmann was a bit off... I couldn't tell half the time what was going on, the cameras were just too close to the actors, I didn't like that. The visuals were iffy, specifically the scene where Rodrigo Santoro be comes really huge and was nothing more than a CGI effect and looked the cave troll from Lord of the Rings. I really thought that the main villain, but it's actually some woman, I forgot her name and I honestly don't care. Fight scenes were pretty good, except there was one uncomfortable scene of a woman literally freezing to death from the pill while Art is fighting a bunch of goons in the background. It's script however squanders a movie with an intriguing premise. The father-daughter dynamic between Art and Robin feels forced and it also had a very inconsistent tone, Robin takes care of her mother who's diabetic by dealing on the streets, while that's sad and depressing, there are also scenes with comedy that fall right onto its face. 

Another thing is that it's an R-rated movie but it plays too safe and feels more like an edgy PG-13 movie. It's almost like the movie was censoring itself. 

This was a nice Popcorn flick brimming with style, it's the script that's the problem, I feel like the filmmakers needed to look at that draft before making it.

I'm going to give it a 5/10

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