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Noses get broken, fingers get shot off, bodies are frozen, and dozens of people are killed at close range and in gory detail. Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, working from a script by red-hot writer Mattson Tomlin (whose upcoming projects include “The Batman” and the sci-fi romance “The Little Fish”), deliver screen-popping, brightly colored and explosive visuals, filled with frantic action sequences, most notably an early scene where Machine Gun Kelly’s Newt pops a Power pill and turns into a human fireball, and when Gordon-Levitt’s Frank violates police protocol and pops a pill in order to chase down a bank robber who is invisible — until the thief opens a sack of stolen cash and red dye explodes all over him. Join now. Set on the streets of New Orleans, the story follows teenage drug dealer Robin (Dominique Fishback), who zones out in class by day and pushes the pill by night. Robin puts herself at risk, engages in illegal activities so she can buy food and prescription medicine for her ailing mother. It could be good, it could be bad, or it could make you blow up on the spot. B. Netflix. “My mother has diabetes NOW,” retorts Robin. The only main character that isn’t given much of a backstory is Frank, other than trying to impress his superior Captain Crane (Courtney B. Vance). Hollywood has become addicted to the superhero genre over the past 25 years. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. pwr.r.test(n = , r = , sig.level = , power = ) where n is the sample size and r is the correlation. To download R, please choose your preferred CRAN mirror. Netflix presents a film directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost and written by Mattson Tomlin. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman co-direct this sci-fi action film about an experimental drug that when taken gives five minutes of a superpower, though each user is affected differently. Rated R (for violence, bloody images, drug content and some language). Set in a near-dystopian New Orleans where the criminals are running wild and the police force is seemingly powerless to do anything about it, “Project Power” features two veteran big-name stars in Jamie Foxx as Art, a former military man hell-bent on finding the source of the mysterious and chaos-creating Power pills, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Frank, a dedicated N.O.P.D. Does it glamorize substance use at all? Frank (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a local cop who tries to help Robin out when he can. Interweaving this trio of characters is screenwriter Mattson Tomlin, who will co-write “The Batman” (2021). Teens will benefit from positive affirmation and parental support. New Orleans and its sports teams are featured. ), “Project Power” is primarily a sci-fi action thriller, but there’s more than a sprinkling of social commentary, as when a frustrated Frank exclaims to his supervisor (Courtney V. Vance) about the feds taking over operations in his city: “We know what happened the last time guys in suits took over in New Orleans!” and Art encouraging Robin to explore her potential in unconventional ways that circumvent the traditional routes: “You’re young, you’re black, you’re a woman — the system is designed to swallow you whole.” And there are some welcome moments of light humor, as when Robin teases Frank about his penchant for quoting Clint Eastwood and Frank says she probably doesn’t even know who that is, and Robin cites “The Bridges of Madison County,” of all Eastwood films, and Frank concedes, “That actually was pretty good.”.