Project Power

Project Power
Promotional release poster
Directed by
Written byMattson Tomlin
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMichael Simmonds
Edited byJeff McEvoy
Music byJoseph Trapanese
Production
companies
  • Screen Arcade
  • Supermarche
Distributed byNetflix
Release date
  • August 14, 2020 (2020-08-14)
Running time
114 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$85.1 million[2]

Project Power is a 2020 American science fiction action film[3] directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, produced by Eric Newman and Bryan Unkeless, and written by Mattson Tomlin. It stars Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback, alongside Colson Baker, Rodrigo Santoro, Amy Landecker and Allen Maldonado, and follows a drug dealer, a police officer, and a former soldier who team up to stop the distribution of a pill that gives the user superpowers for five minutes.

The film was released on August 14, 2020, by Netflix. It received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances of the cast, action sequences and visuals but criticized the screenplay.[4]

  1. ^ "Project Power". Netflix. Archived from the original on August 11, 2020. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  2. ^ "Initial Certification Search" (Type "Power" in the search box). Fastlane NextGen. Archived from the original on June 15, 2020. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  3. ^ "'Power' player: Jamie Foxx on his new Netflix film and becoming the first Black Pixar lead". EW.com. Archived from the original on August 20, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
  4. ^ Ho, Pang-Chieh (August 14, 2020). "Is The Jamie Foxx Superhero Movie 'Project Power' Any Good? Here's What The Reviews Say". DIGG. Archived from the original on August 16, 2020. Retrieved August 14, 2020.