It is rumored that Netflix's original movies are bad films in all likelihood, especially those that are advertised as "big productions" and have "high concept" titles, almost all of them are bad films. The Old Guard), did not expect to send the audience a "pseudo-big production" "Project Power" in August. The film brought in Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who played Robin in Christopher Nolan's "Batman series" (Batman series), to star in the role. As his first comeback to the big screen, he claimed that he decided to star in the film after careful selection. A popular concept, taking a five-minute pill can randomly acquire superpowers, causing urban criminal organizations to run rampant, and the police are forced to take pills to fight crime. At first glance, the movie intends to build a dark world and think about whether the police should continue to follow the inherent rules, or take pills to step on. The world hunts for the murderer, but the pills are only to set off the same story line as "Rescue 96 Hours" (Taken), lacking the margins to dig deeper into the proposition, always clear good and evil, turbid world mixed with light jokes, growth stories that appear for no reason , The abrupt Rap reasonably presses the observability of the story.
"Project Superpower" tells the story of the streets of New Orleans as word begins to spread about a mysterious new pill that unlocks unique superpowers for each user. But here's the thing: Before taking it, no one knew what would happen after the drug. Some will evolve bulletproof skin, invisibility, and super strength, while many will exhibit more lethal responses. But when the pill escalates crime in the city to dangerous levels, the local police, a teenage peddler and a vengeful veteran team up to take the risk of taking the pill to track down and stop the person who made it. team……
Mysterious pills flowed out of the market. After taking them, they could get superpowers randomly. The city was in a panic. The movie successfully constructed a grand and interesting world view. The atmosphere of the game builds the expectation that the world will go dark like "Batman", but the plot unfolds in depth and turns to explore the conspiracy of the evil organization, giving up the continued focus on urban crimes. The police are forced to take drugs to fight crime, which is an unacceptable part of the rules. However, at the beginning of the story, the male protagonist takes drugs without any struggle, and even the police quickly acquiesced to him to continue taking them, which is contrary to the proposition.
The movie can have a richer trend, such as how ordinary people avoid the 5-minute attack of superhumans, and run parkour in a big city. It is the trend of stylish action movies. If you want to build a dark style in depth, superhumans cooperate with each other. The crime caused people to panic, everyone rushed to buy pills to protect themselves, and with the original contradiction between the police breaking the rules and keeping the inherent rules, the film level is even less three-dimensional, but the film chose to stay in the old-school action film, a lot of boring, poor shot scheduling The hand-to-hand fight scene seems to fill the length of the film, making people wonder why not take the mysterious pill to start the game between superhumans? It was only later that I remembered to stage a superhuman versus superhuman, but the level of skills has already revealed who will win. In the latter part, two people defeated the entire villain force, and the infinite protagonist's halo weakened the followability of the story.
A well-planned and ambitious worldview was eventually reduced to a cliché action movie in the 1990s, and the superpower pills that were publicized in advance became a supporting role in the context of political competition, failing to give full play to the function of the pills.
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