Project Power

(...) is still a fun, surprisingly hardcore and action-packed ride.

It takes comic-book clichés and applies them to a gritty, sweaty cop thriller, giving its story a stylish coat of paint that results in a sleek, silly night at the movies.

High-concept, star-heavy Netflix action movie imagines a world where a street drug can turn anyone in to a comic-book hero or villain -- for a price.

But there's a long line of hits that have found an appreciative audience despite charges of unoriginality.

Every time that "Project Power" threatens to become something more engaging and interesting, it pulls back from that edge.

A sinister drug turns ordinary people invincible (for five minutes) in a visually busy conspiracy thriller, starring Jamie Foxx and Dominique Fishback, that's more hurtling than hypnotic.

Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's imaginative, garish, occasionally corny and generally entertaining riff on the superhero genre.