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Project Power (2020)

Project Power poster
Directed by
Henry Joost
Genre
action film, science fiction film, crime film, thriller film, speculative fiction film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 51m
Rated
R
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 3,095 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A drug dealer, a cop, and a former soldier join forces to stop a pill that gives users superpowers for five minutes. They track the source of the pill through the streets of New Orleans.

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What happens

Project Power is a 2020 American science fiction action film directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, produced by Eric Newman and Bryan Unkeless, and written by Mattson Tomlin. It stars Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback, alongside Colson Baker, Rodrigo Santoro, Amy Landecker and Allen Maldonado, and follows a drug dealer, a police officer, and a former soldier who team up to stop the distribution of a pill that gives the user superpowers for five minutes. The film was released on August 14, 2020, by Netflix. It received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances of the cast, action sequences and visuals but criticized the screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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