2020 · action · crime · sci-fi
Project Power
Directed by Henry Joost1h 53m2020
An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.
Our read: Project Power (2020) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · crime · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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