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Written by | Mattson Tomlin |
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Cinematography | Michael Simmonds |
Edited by | Jeff McEvoy |
Music by | Joseph Trapanese |
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Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 114 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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]