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Project Power

2020

Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dominique Fishback, Machine Gun Kelly ...

4.9

5,943

Sci-Fi. Action When a pill that gives its users unpredictable superpowers for five minutes hits the streets of New Orleans, a teenage dealer and a local cop must team with an ex-soldier to take down the group responsible for its creation.

	Author	Review
United States	Robert Daniels IGN	"[It] misses the potentiality of its relevant themes and intriguing concept for an overwrought reconception of the superhero narrative.	NEG
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"A shiny, noisy, more-or-less tolerable blowout from Netflix (...) The movie’s sexism is predictable and dull; how it navigates race is similarly obvious but a touch more interesting	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Who doesn’t need some whiz-bang escapism in August 2020? However, as the power of this project dissipates, ask yourself what you could have done with the concept, cast, and budget (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"The title is a tad generic, but 'Project Power' is fast-paced, pulpy fun, with plenty of big action set-pieces and enough sly humor to conjure the escape of the multiplex."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] has propulsion, little detonations of visual magic, the resonant setting (...) 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."	NEU
United States	Alison Willmore Vulture	"It’s been a while since I’ve felt as cheated by a movie (...) [It] only has one memorable action sequence, (...) but it grinds dutifully through plenty of other set-pieces anyway."	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Is it good or bad, or at least worth sampling? (...) The answer, at least with regard to 'Project Power', is likely to fall somewhere in between (...) [It] is too fast and flashy to qualify as boring but also too generic"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	Gordon-Levitt, Jamie Foxx and Dominique Fishback give punchy performances in this enjoyable thriller (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Vinnie Mancuso Collider	"It’s a genuinely entertaining burst of energy and ass-kicking, but it’s fleeting. The movie equivalent of being given the ability to fly for five minutes."	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"It's a lot smarter than the trailer and the opening scenes get across — and surprisingly fun, too, in the way that movies like 'Lucy' and 'Limitless' are fun"	POS
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"The team behind the Netflix movie is great and Jamie Foxx is always good, but this is too long and predictable (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	Sandy Schaefer Screen Rant	"While it's far from a refined genre-blending thrill ride, there's enough about 'Project Power' that works to partially offset its fundamental problems (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Katie Rife AV Club	"Undistinguished, a mishmash of familiar tropes presented with a lot of panache but not a lot of imagination."	NEG
Canada	Norman Wilner Now Toronto	"This month’s big dumb Netflix movie. While it may not be one of the best things you’ll see this month… honestly, neither is it the worst."	NEU
Canada	Diksha Sundriyal TheCinemaholic	"[It] does its best to keep you thoroughly entertained and make up for the void you might have been feeling in the superhero action that went missing this year."	POS
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Armed with a stellar cast (...) the new Netflix would-be blockbuster never reaches its potential, layering complications that only muddy what should be a slam-dunk twist on the superhero story."	NEU
United Kingdom	Patrick Cremona Radio Times	"It all adds up to something that will clearly pull in audiences, and which will perfectly pass the time for those that choose to watch it, but which is unlikely to linger too long in the memory (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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