Netflix's 'Project Power' lets Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt loose in a world where a street drug can turn anyone into a superhero. It's a rush, says Peter Travers
With that lineup, what could go wrong? Plenty. But a lot goes right as well. The movie bats around Tomlin’s intriguing idea, i.e. exploiting disenfranchised millennials as guinea pigs for a drug the higher-ups can use for control . It’s too bad that Joost and Schulman, who bill themselves as Henry and Rel, can’t stick the landing, which was the same nagging drawback that afflicted their otherwise promising 2016 thrillerabout an online game that goes south.
For the caring part, thank the actors. Oscar winner Foxx is Art, aka the “Major,” an ex-soldier the authorities think is behind the drug. He’s actually pursuing a more personal agenda. Gordon-Levitt is Frank Shaver, a local cop trying to nail the Major. And Dominique Fishback steals scenes right out from under both of them as teenaged Robin, a wannabe rapper who’s dealing the drug on the streets to pay for her sick mother’s operation.
And there’s fun to be had in watching the young woman bring out the Clint Eastwood in Frank . Better yet, Fishback and Foxxn — two African-Americans taking the lead in a possible franchise — are dynamite. They achieve a bracing, believable rapport that adds emotion to the subplot about the Major’s daughter, Tracy , who’s been kidnapped by the bad guys since Tracy can achieve Power without taking a pill.
Still, even visual dazzle — props to cinematographer Michael Simmonds — can’t save a scenario that stumbles with sermonizing and a convoluted climax on a cargo ship called Genesis that enervates more than it enlightens. Till then, the movie keeps the excitement percolating — check out the chase scene in a burning building — while providing a forum for three terrific actors to bring humanity to what could have slid by as comic-book fantasy.
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