Review of Project Power (2020) by Laurentv — 24 Aug 2020

I would bet a big pile of cash money on a scenario where this was a script sitting in a drawer. The plot revolved around a new designer drug upsetting the seamy underworld of New Orleans, but it was so cliche and overdone that it was left in that drawer. AND THEN, one day, someone saw "Limitless". Then they looked at the money the big superhero movies are making. They sent forth the command "Make that designer drug into a superpower pill".

And that's why "Project Power" is a lone wolf cop and a distraught father taking on drug cartel movie you've seen a hundred times before. The filmmakers had a mediocre budget and, worse, a low watt imagination in offering the superpowers. The superpower angle is nothing but, to use the old saying, putting "lipstick on a pig". I won't say it is a bad movie. It's just a dull movie that is only recommended because of the pandemic and pickings are getting slim.