The new superhero film has been on Netflix since today Project Power of directors Ariel Schulman in Henry Joost and with big names like Jamie Foxx in Joseph Gordon-Levitt. And the first reviews are like the recent Netflix blockbusters The Old Guard in Extraction: entertaining popcorn for probably enough Netflixers!
The first reviews have been collected on Rotten Tomatoes and have yielded a Tomatometer score of 69% and an ‘Audience Score’ of 64% on.
Project Power: “Slick and absurd”
“Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman – they made the original Catfish ten years ago – give Project Power a slick look and a nimble feel, even though the premise is sheer absurdity,” Detroit News reviewer said.
En via The Hollywood Reporter: “What makes Project Power entertaining is the clever combination of familiar ingredients in a structured, realistic environment that gives it a fresh flavor.”
More negative is New York Magazine / Vulture: “The problem with trying to push the boundaries of the superhero genre isn’t that we run out of source material, it’s that the imagination is so limited …”
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