Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback get caught up in deadly pharmaceutical chaos in Netflix's high-octane sci-fi action thriller 'Project Power.' Read THR's review:
. But seriously, so what? Is it even possible for a superpower movie to be truly original anymore? In fact, what makesentertaining is its canny combination of familiar ingredients in a textured real-world milieu that gives it fresh flavor.
From the start, New Orleans provides a gritty setting for a thriller that unfolds predominantly at night. As a cargo ship pulls into the port at 3 a.m., a sharp-suited, sleazy middleman named Biggie oversees the unloading of countless crates all packed with iridescent capsules, which he offers up free to the assembled "young entrepreneurs" for distribution. A bug-eyed guy named Newt , who appears to be as much a consumer as a vendor, asks what's the product.
Developed by a shadow government defense contractor in a program headed by Gardner , a scientist with little concern for human casualties, the pill has been tested on military units. One of those lab rats was Art , aka the Major, who has passed on genetic modifications acquired during the testing to his daughter Tracy through a process akin to fetal alcohol syndrome. In a touch that's schematic but functional, Robin has been learning about that condition in high school.
Having established a trio of principal characters in gray moral areas — drug-dealer, unorthodox cop, ex-soldier with PTSD and a murky agenda — the script deftly broadens our understanding of them as they form an alliance.
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