The temptation of superpowers in 5 minutes

Pete 2022-03-21 09:02:09

Hollywood practice, to obtain superpowers, the poor rely on mutation, and the rich rely on equipment. This film has opened up a new way, relying on medicine, but it can only last for 5 minutes of experience.

An organization with armed guards sells an expensive special effect capsule on the black market in New Orleans. After eating it, you can have some kind of super power for 5 minutes, such as becoming a burning man, becoming an ice man, becoming invulnerable, becoming Transparent people, become Hercules. . . Wait, of course, there is also the possibility of self-destruction. .

Robin, a black girl who loves rap, makes money by selling capsules. Her client, Frank, a white police officer, uses special effects capsules to catch criminals. Art's daughter, a black veteran, was taken away by the drug organization for experimentation. Art searched for clues to find Robin, and with Frank's help, the three sneaked into the big ship controlled by the drug organization.

Just when the three were trapped, Art swallowed the pill and made a big move, turning the evil drug organization into ashes, and at the same time saving his daughter. The four have a perfect happy ending.

The progress of the plot is relatively compact, but there is really no story, and the hard logic cannot stand scrutiny. The part where Art turns into a superhero to destroy the villain to save everyone and then is rescued by his daughter is even more boring.

Humans want to rely on special drugs to strengthen their bodies and try to transcend the laws of nature. Similar attempts have existed since ancient times, and it is nothing new. However, unlike ancient times, which depended more on luck, since modern Europe has made qualitative breakthroughs in chemistry and biology, generations of careerists, scientific madmen, and greedy capitalists have been trying to develop a way to make the human body Drugs that produce qualitative changes.

This is not a fictional legend or nonsensical science fiction, but a real existence, especially in the turbulent era of war when technology is urgently needed to serve the war, and even direct experiments with soldiers are not new. Even though the world is generally at peace today, various powerful government agencies and medical consortia are still secretly conducting various shady experiments, but it seems that no substantive progress has been made so far.

Technology itself is not good or evil, but it is hard to say what kind of people who master technology are.

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Project Power quotes

  • Robin: You know, on the streets, they talkin' about how it give you super powers, but they not talkin' about how one hit could kill you.

  • Art: [trailer] You don't know who I am, or what I'm about, but I'll do anything to find that source.