{"id":19696,"date":"2020-06-29T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=19696"},"modified":"2020-09-14T11:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T18:37:36","slug":"film-review-project-power-exercise-in-cliches-streaming-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/film-review-project-power-exercise-in-cliches-streaming-on-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: \u201cProject Power\u201d \u2013 An Exercise in Clich\u00e9s Now Streaming on Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19690\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19690\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Project-Power-Poster.jpg\" alt=\"Project Power movie poster\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Project-Power-Poster.jpg 500w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Project-Power-Poster-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><center><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTO COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/span><\/center><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/joseph-gordon-levitt-compelling-7500-streaming-on-amazon\/\"><strong>Joseph Gordon-Levitt<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>Jamie Foxx<\/strong> in lead roles, how could anything go wrong in this action, sci-fi thriller written by first-time screenwriter \u200b<strong>Mattson Tomlin <\/strong>and directed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/person\/ariel-schulman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ariel Schulman<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/person\/henry-joost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henry Joost<\/a>?<\/strong>\u00a0 In a word \u2013 plenty.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s <strong>3:00<\/strong> am in <strong>New Orleans,<\/strong> nicely captured by cinematographer <strong>Michael<\/strong> <strong>Simmonds.<\/strong> The drug dealers are hard at work selling a shiny new pill which, when taken, endows the recipient with super powers. At <strong>$500<\/strong> a pop, this magic bullet is not stable and while it could gift you with superhuman strength allowing you to lift a car up over your head, or turn you into a super hero where bullets bounce off your cheeks, or render you invisible, or enable you to sprint at almost <strong>50<\/strong> miles per hour, the pill is unstable and, as <strong>Colson Baker<\/strong>, a.k.a. \u200b<strong>Rapper<\/strong> <strong>Machine Gun Kelly,<\/strong> demonstrates, after taking the pill he turns into a flaming torch. \u00a0I guess you could say you pays the price and you takes your chances.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19691\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19691\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Human-Torch.jpg\" alt=\"human torch\" width=\"850\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Human-Torch.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Human-Torch-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Human-Torch-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Human-Torch-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Power Pill is unstable and you could wind up being a human torch.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTO COURTESY OF NETFLIX.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Frank,<\/strong> a <strong>LAPD<\/strong> officer played by <strong>Gordon-Levitt,<\/strong> arrives on the scene and busts a young girl named <strong>Robin<\/strong>, who is a drug pusher\/wannabe <strong>Rapper,<\/strong> played by <strong>Dominique Fishback.<\/strong>\u00a0 They then become partners in the pursuit of the major supplier.\u00a0 Every once in a while throughout the film, she breaks out in a <strong>Rap <\/strong>riff germane to a particular situation and becomes a pivotal character in the ensuing silly action.\u00a0 In order to level the playing field with the bad guys, <strong>Frank <\/strong>takes a pill and taps into his hidden strength.\u00a0 Yes, there are shades of <strong>Bradley Cooper\u2019s<\/strong> starring role in the well-done <strong><em>Limitless<\/em><\/strong><em>,<\/em> which also involved taking a pill \u2013 giving new meaning to \u201con the pill.\u201d Sorry.\u00a0 Couldn\u2019t resist that. There are also vague, superficial similarities to <strong>Marvel<\/strong> and <strong>DC Comics<\/strong> super heroes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19695\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19695\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-as-Officer-Frank.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Gordon-Levitt\u2019s LAPD officer Frank\" width=\"850\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-as-Officer-Frank.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-as-Officer-Frank-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-as-Officer-Frank-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-as-Officer-Frank-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Having ingested the pill, Joseph Gordon-Levitt\u2019s LAPD officer Frank is impervious to any serious side effects to being shot in the face.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTO COURTESY OF NETFLIX.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19693\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19693\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-and-Courtney-Vance.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Courtney Vance\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-and-Courtney-Vance.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-and-Courtney-Vance-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-and-Courtney-Vance-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-and-Courtney-Vance-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Police Captain Crane played by Courtney B. Vance in a meeting with Frank, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTO COURTESY OF NETFLIX.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Enter now <strong>Jamie Foxx<\/strong> as <strong>Art,<\/strong> a former army major whose daughter has been kidnapped by the sinister, cartoonish bad guys played by \u00a0<strong>Rodrigo<\/strong> <strong>Santoro<\/strong> and <strong>Amy Landecker<\/strong>, leaders in <strong>Teleios,<\/strong> the outfit peddling <strong>Power.<\/strong> Their creepy plan is to mass produce the <strong>Power Pill<\/strong> and create an indestructible militia that could take over the world.\u00a0 It seems that <strong>Art\u2019s<\/strong> daughter <strong>Tracy,<\/strong> played by <strong>Kyanna Simone Simpson<\/strong>, has special antibodies in her blood that allows her to achieve the same effects of the <strong>Power<\/strong> pill without actually taking it.\u00a0 She is currently being held captive on a cavernous cargo ship turned into a massive floating laboratory with endless winding corridors and secret hatches controlled by a highly intricate set of computers, let\u2019s say on the scale of <strong>NASA<\/strong> or the <strong>CIA<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Art<\/strong> is determined to rescue his daughter and in a flashback remembers the two of them in a car when his daughter is dragged away by the bad guys thus beginning his unrelenting determination to rescue her.\u00a0 So, the three of them \u2013 <strong>Frank, Art,<\/strong> and <strong>Robin <\/strong>make their way to the ship and lo and behold, she figures out how to work the unbelievably intricate computer system controlling the doors and hatches, giving <strong>Frank <\/strong>and <strong>Art <\/strong>blow-by-blow instructions on how to retrieve <strong>Tracy<\/strong> without getting caught.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19692\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19692\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jamie-Foxx.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie Foxx in a scene from Project Power\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jamie-Foxx.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jamie-Foxx-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jamie-Foxx-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Jamie-Foxx-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Having been captured by the bad guys, Jamie Foxx as Art takes a Power pill to achieve super human strength.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTO COURTESY OF NETFLIX.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19701\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19701\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Superhuman.jpg\" alt=\"power pill transforms Jamie Foxx\" width=\"850\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Superhuman.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Superhuman-600x351.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Superhuman-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Superhuman-768x449.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Power pill kicks in and now you have Art (Jamie Foxx) with superhuman strength.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTO COURTESY OF NETFLIX.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having rescued her, now the four of them have to get off the ship alive and thus, popping a pill, <strong>Art <\/strong>becomes a version of the <strong>Hulk <\/strong>and a big punch-out ensues.\u00a0\u00a0 And, like any good fairytale, the good guys win, the bad guys are dead, and <strong>Robin,<\/strong> the former drug dealer, gets to cut her first rap single.\u00a0 Other members of the supporting cast include, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/person\/allen-maldonado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allen Maldonado<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/person\/casey-neistat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Casey Neistat<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/person\/tait-fletcher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tait Fletcher<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/person\/colson-baker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colson Baker<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/person\/michael-thomas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Thomas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/person\/andrene-ward-hammond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrene Ward-Hammond<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/person\/yoshi-sudarso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoshi Sudarso<\/a>,<\/strong> and a cameo guest performance by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/person\/courtney-b-vance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Courtney B. Vance<\/a>,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>who delivers one of the most believable moments in the film.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19694\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19694\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-and-Dominique-Fishback.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback\" width=\"850\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-and-Dominique-Fishback.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-and-Dominique-Fishback-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-and-Dominique-Fishback-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-and-Dominique-Fishback-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Frank (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) checks out the massive computer set up with Robin (Dominique Fishback) who guides the two heroes to safety.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTO COURTESY OF NETFLIX.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While it might sound good on paper, the film is weighted down by predictable clich\u00e9s, and rather absurd plot points.\u00a0 It\u2019s a wonder that despite the poor script, and intermittent unfocused direction, that the three principal characters gave creditable performances \u2013 especially <strong>Fox <\/strong>and <strong>Fishback.<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>Gordon-Levitt,<\/strong> who is usually solid in creating characters, did have a bit of a challenge in maintaining consistency throughout the <strong>R Rated<\/strong>, <strong>1 hour and 51 minutes<\/strong> of an action film that\u00a0ultimately falls flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jamie Foxx in lead roles, how could anything go wrong in this action, sci-fi thriller written by first-time screenwriter Mattson Tomlin and directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost?  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