Netflix’s Project Power, the most fun you won’t have at the movies this summer

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  Jamie Foxx plays The Major (who's name we eventually learn is Art), a veteran trying to hunt down the creators of the Power pills. [credit: SKIP BOLEN/NETFLIX © 2020 ]

Remember movie theaters? Those things were fun—even in the dead heat of summer, you could snag a $10 ticket for two hours of air conditioning, varying degrees of thrills, and the option to overspend on popcorn and M&Ms. Perhaps even better, this situation encouraged out-of-your-comfort-zone choice. Only so many different films can play on a theater's limited number of screens at once, so instead of being paralyzed by endless selection screen scrolling, you and your cohort simply aimed for what sounded best and maybe enjoyed something you wouldn't have tried otherwise.

Project Power, available this weekend on Netflix, stars Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback. It screams "summer action movie, available for a few weekends in July." But in 2020, such things remain fantasies of the past. That's a shame for many, many reasons, but one of the tinier downsides of the film industry's current reality is that Project Power is a good time many people will simply never see, maybe never even know exists.

An archetype project

In a broad sense, Project Power tells a classic tale of those in power conducting experiments on the rest of us. A seedy scientific startup called Teleios has created a drug that gives humans superpowers (the drug's plainly called Power). The drug sits firmly in the development stage, though. Users don't know what power they'll develop—the list of classics includes chameleon-like camouflage, super strength, regeneration abilities, etc.—but not all of 'em end up benefitting users.

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