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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jamie Foxx, Rodrigo Santoro, Machine Gun Kelly, Amy Landecker, Courtney B. Vance, Tait Fletcher, Allen Maldonado, Yoshua Sudarso (több)Streaming (1)
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Egy volt katona, egy tinédzser és egy zsaru találkozik New Orleans utcáin egy olyan veszélyes új tabletta forrását keresve, ami rövid időre szupererőt ad használójának. (Netflix)
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It's all based on a well-used idea, a likeable Joseph Gordon-Levitt and a badass Jamie Foxx. Not enough for you? Well, it's good enough for me.
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Actually, this is exactly what I was expecting. Joost and Schulman have already shown in Nerve that they can make movies that look nice, which ideally overcomes the fact that they are pretty stupid. This is exactly the same case. Project Power is visually a lot of fun, Jamie Foxx is good at playing badasses in movies and clearly enjoys it, Gordon-Levitt didn't seem to get bored on set either, and I'm definitely curious to see what Dominique Fishback will do in the future. There's a lot of action, there are a few ideas too, and there's quite often something banging or someone shooting, so it goes by quickly. I had fun, and it wasn't actually until the end credits that I realized how silly this is and how unimaginatively it rips off the X-Men or, say, the semi-forgotten Push. Project Power is just as silly as the recent The Old Guard, but unlike the immortal Charlize Theron, Foxx and co. are pretty aware of that. Above all, Project Power is supposed to be a nice looking spectacle with a few cool scenes where you can turn your head off and enjoy the fact that it bangs along nicely and looks pretty. Of course I would appreciate if there was something more to it, but then again I have no problem with a B-movie that knows about its B-movie-ness, isn't ashamed of it and occasionally manages to pleasantly surprise with a cool catchphrase or an imaginative action scene. OK for me, and if Netflix wants to milk a series out of it, I'm fine with that, too.
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If there was something done right by Netflix here it was its choice of actors. I quite missed Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and even though Project Power is quite dumb I was able to watch it because of them. Moreover the action scenes weren’t boring at all. The premise was really stupid and I could imagine these actors in something a lot better. But I would probably have to wait for it...
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I have sympathy for it because, with its empowerment message, it gets on the nerves of the herd of local brownish bastards. It has balls and an idea, but unfortunately they can't replace the naivety, the cumbersome start and the chaotic editing. Similarly to Extraction, there is no clear villain, and as in the case of every Netflix original, the playwright went on vacation and never returned.
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This anticipated Netflix new release is not as good as we all expected, yet I'm quite happy and grateful at the same time, since if it weren't for Netflix, we'd see almost nothing this year. A new drug starts to be distributed in New Orleans that gives people super powers for five minutes. The film has a nice comic book feel to it, and most importantly it's R-rated, with a few gore shots that pleasantly surprised me. Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt give decent performances, the mutations produced by the drug are delivered in a fun way and I was most impressed by the camouflage ability where the colours change according to the environment and also the ability to bend joints. The action is more in the second half and is filmed very decently, and the pacing suited me, so although more could certainly have been made with the concept, I still had an exceedingly good time. Plus also for the music. Story***, Action****, Humor***, Violence****, Entertainment****, Music****, Visuals****, Atmosphere***, Suspense***. 7/10.
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Project Power is sort of alternative, black version of Push (has it been 11 years already?), with a lot of rapping and talk about oppression. It moves along quite well, but you soon forget the generic storyline, even though the original idea and the world where it all takes place are interesting. Thanks to the great cast and the setting in New Orleans, Project Power is a really good watch. The action scenes are very convincing, but contain nothing new. All said, this is a good TV flick.
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As expected, a typically tarted-up big movie in the Marvel style – it has the frantic editing, the flowery camera rides and lots of slow motion that is supposed to highlight some of the early action sequences. The directors try to keep the viewer entertained and, especially at the beginning, push the story forward quickly, but the uninteresting script makes their efforts increasingly counterproductive. We look forward in anticipation to a playful reveal of all the possibilities offered by the illegal super-hero pills, but in the end we don’t get much. After the first two scenes that show the positive and negative effects of the “drug”, and once the three main characters have been placed on the motivational chessboard, we get a very sloppy fairytale packed with clichés that fully forgets about working with the curiosity of the viewer and only relies on fairground attractions. Those attractions, by the way, aren’t even that impressive (the budget was 85 million, which is not a lot today) and the execution is so boring that it’s almost annoying – I get the blandness of the violence that many of the confrontations and physical transformations would warrant if this wasn’t a Marvel-like, mass-appeal thing for Netflix, but I don’t like the chaotic edition, the dark staging and the numbingly repetitive montage of the internal effects of the pill, which were a little annoying already in Requiem for a Dream. The actors are fine, of course, Foxx and Levitt have enough charisma to hold their not very interesting characters above water, but despite the nicely drawn lines in the style of a buddy movie, they never manage to generate a sincere interest in their fates – you can safely predict how the story will end, while the climax in the style of your average action flick with a clear absence of the “super” before the “hero” is a huge disappointment. Not to mention that the biggest MacGuffin of the story remains pretty unexplained overall and feels only forced… It will certainly fulfil its purpose as a successful snack on Netflix – the popularity of super-heroes is still high – but in this case the expectations where more than a derivative consumer product to fill the grid. If the creators had made a ten minute short instead, it would have been a lot better. 45%
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I really burned myself with this movie choice on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. The preview intrigued me, but in the end, it’s a film that won’t be remembered even a week later. The initial concept caught my interest, but the problem with Project Power is simply the script. I haven’t seen such a straightforward and uninteresting affair in a long time; the film doesn’t attempt to shock in any way and plays it safe, which bothered me a lot. One of the few positives is the cast; Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jamie Foxx perform at a decent level, though it's nothing groundbreaking (don’t expect Oscar ambitions :D), but they did deliver above standard performances. The main protagonist, however, was a poor fit for the entire concept; her chemistry with the duo didn’t work at all, making it a significant drawback. The action could have salvaged it, it really could have (and there are a few hints of it), but it played such a minor role that it was disappointing. It’s a shame. The special effects were decent, but they didn’t blow me away (for $85 million, the technical aspects are a joke; I’d expect a much lower budget). The music also didn’t improve the overall impression. All in all, it’s the kind of film where the potential was entirely wasted. I give it 50%.
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Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are fine actors, but when they have nothing to play, it's tough. Project Power is yet another generic Netflix movie where all the racial quotas were dutifully observed and where at least one scene contained a completely direct critique of racist white behavior. I'm getting tired of it. I'm naturally accepting that racial issues are all the rage these days and that Netflix needs to go with the times. But that contemporary paradigm can't obscure the fact that, from a filmmaking standpoint, this film is subpar in every way, and the appeal to #blacklivesmatter here feels terribly empty.
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