In a summer where Marvel Studios and DC Comics haven’t been able to bring the world superpowered thrills, Netflix is about to do its best to compete with their latest original: director Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s Project Power. Starring Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback, this R-rated caper is about a future New Orleans where the streets are about to be flooded with a drug that, for five minutes, gives the user a unique superpower. And on the heels of the interviews that have come out of the press day for the film, the embargo is up on critical reviews, and we’ve got some of the reactions for you to read below.
We’ll start with CinemaBlend’s own Sean O’Connell, who rated Project Power at a three out of five stars, with the following comments: