Review of Project Power (2020) by Nobodyyouknow — 16 Aug 2020

Tl;dr: If you liked Netflix's Bright, you'll like this. 90% style, 10% substance (and sub-par in both categories). If you want an interesting narrative with fleshed out characters who elicit emotional responses, look elsewhere.

With Foxx (Art) and Levitt (Frank) involved, this film had me expecting much more -- can't help but think they signed up strictly for the money because the script is banal. I was hopeful at the start because it seemed as if Foxx really might play "the bad guy", but you quickly learn that's not the case. That said, Foxx does what he can with the hackneyed script. Levitt seems miscast -- felt like he phoned it in. The actress who plays Robin (Dominique Fishback) was just painfully amateurish.

The biggest problem was that we were supposed to feel something for Robin and her ill mother, and we *should* have felt something for Art and his daughter, but the film fails miserably at getting the viewer invested in their lives and emotions.

This felt like a B(minus)-movie with a couple of A-list leads. It gets an extra point or two for (self-conscious) style -- the scene with the frozen woman was fun -- but serves as little more than distraction.