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Today, I'm going to explain an American superhero film called, " Project Power ", released in
2020. Don't waste your time, Be ready for some spoilers
ahead.
The film starts in New Orleans, a group of drug dealers gathers as a man named, Biggie,
presents them with a new product that he will give to them for free in order to sell.
It is a special pill called, " Power ", that grants those who take it a random superpower
for five minutes. However, not everybody responds to the pill
that way, since some have been known to explode seconds after ingesting.
Biggie starts with one curious dealer named, Newt, who thinks it’s too good if it to
be true.
Weeks later, Newt’s cousin named, Robin, who is aspiring to become a rapper, is selling
Power pill on the streets. Three goons try to rob her until a detective
named, Frank, comes to her rescue. One of the goons tries to take the Power pill,
but Frank tells him that he will explode his head, if he didn't get a superpower, making
the goon doesn't take it. In addition, Frank pretends to arrest Robin
to make the others leave. In reality, Frank and Robin are friends since
she sells him the Power pill. However, Frank also tries to make sure Robin
stays out of trouble. In addition, he even gives her a motorcycle
as a late birthday gift.
Elsewhere in the city, a man named, Art, goes to an apartment complex to look for Newt and
the source of the Power pill. Art meets Newt, but he has been taking too
much the Power pills over the last few weeks, is starting to look more and more disfigured.
Art pretends to be the customer, who wants to buy the Power pill, while Newt doesn't
trust him so he goes to call other dealers. This makes the opportunity for Art to sneak
into his apartment. Art makes his way inside and finds Newt’s
stash of the Power pill, but Newt reaches for his gun and tries to kill Art, only for
Art to shoot the gun away. Art then promises him that he will not hurt
him because he just to know how does he gets the Power pill, and who is providing him.
But, Newt didn't trust him, as he run away until he takes the Power pill and unlocks
his ability, which is to have his whole body set ablaze.
Newt then goes after Art throughout the complex before taking three more pills to make more
superpower and wants to takedown Art. He chases after Art until he ends up getting
dunked underwater by Art, and only manages to tell him Biggie’s name before the pill
causes his body to explode. Fortunately, Art manages to get out in time
and he finds Newt's phone and takes it with him.
Cut at Robin's home, her mother wakes her up as she is late to school, where she is
struggling with her grades. Before she went to school, Robin watch the
news on the Tv about the fire blown up in Newt's area, but she didn't interested
She then goes to school with her new motorcycle that is the gift for her birthday from Frank.
Cut to Art, he then stops his car at the gas station and wraps his wound when he fights
with Newt. He takes Newt's phone to find the message
for the clue, while Robin texts to the phone causing he interests in her.
In class, she texts Newt to get more pills, but Art is responding since he took Newt’s
phone. Meanwhile, Robin’s teacher calls her out
for her lack of attention and asks what she is good at.
Her friend says she’s a good rapper and starts to create a beat for Robin to freestyle
and make a diss against the teacher, leading the rest of the class to cheer.
But after that, the movie reveals that it was just a fantasy in Robin’s head, and
she goes to the principal’s office instead of giving up her phone to the teacher.
Elsewhere in the city, Frank is called to respond to a bank robbery where a criminal
is taking the Power pill to use camouflage abilities to evade notice.
After knowing this, Frank takes the Power pill and he determines for five minutes for
himself. Frank then goes inside the bank and passes
the criminal but he didn't see him until the criminal takes the money bag, causing him
to see. He chases after the criminal, who almost escapes
on the train car but the criminal opens the money bag and is sprayed with powder.
Frank chases him by the powder until they into an alley, but Frank falls causing the
criminal to take his gun and shoot him in the head.
But because Frank takes the Power pill, so his ability is being processed, and he takes
the criminal down. Unfortunately, everything that has happened
was spotted by his chief named, Captain Crane.
After that, Captain Crane admonishes him for using the Power pill, and he orders Frank
to hand in his gun and badge. Frank claims everything that he has done is
right because now the criminals are not normal. Captain Crane agrees with this reason, but
what the cops should do is capture the source of the Power pill, rather than pills the Power.
Before Frank leaves, Captain Crane gives him a picture of Art, as it is believed that he
is the source of Power.
Later on, Art goes to look for Robin at a Church’s Chicken where she usually meets
Newt. He waits for her for a day until she shows
up, but he didn't go to meet her. Instead, he slashes her bike tire and kidnaps
her, throwing her into his car. He then takes her to a secluded area to interrogate
her over where she and Newt got the Power pill, while he also threatens to go after
her mother. He then shows Robin a picture of a woman and
a bald man that is believed to have something to do with Power, but neither of them is Biggie.
Later on, the movie cuts to Biggie is talking about the plan with the head of the Power
named, Gardner. They plan to provide the Power pill to the
South American cartel, which wants to drop the government in South America.
Cut to Frank, he goes to the date place that Robin always provides the pill for him.
There, Robin texts him that" Help ", so he finds out something is going on with Robin.
At the same time, Art sees Robin texts, so he takes her phone.
In addition, he gives her a number to call that is supposed to be a warehouse for Power,
and the man responds and orders her to go to a Hong Kong market and ask for alligator
wine. Soon, Art and Robin arrive at the market and
she asks for the alligator wine. There, Robin meets a man in the back named,
Cuello, who is the distribution the Power. Robin tells Cuello that she was threatened
by Art outside. After knowing this, Cuello takes the Power
pill before he goes to find Art. Afterward, Cuello and other henchmen come
out to attack Art, but he kills most of them. Meanwhile, Cuello orders the truck to drive
away, which that Robin stays, and also the place that hides the Power pill.
Art then follows the truck and wants to help Robin, but unfortunately, Cuello shoots Art
through the chest, but he keeps moving and manages to incapacitate Cuello.
Later, Art manages to help Robin but in his pained delusion, he sees Robin as another
girl around the same age named, Tracy. During that time, he and Robin then discover
computers that track all of Power’s users, with Art stating that the makers of Power
are testing it out on buyers. A notice appears for the Power's presentation
that is set to happen in less than two hours and a location pops up.
Art demands Robin take him there, but she is scared about all this, so she runs away
from him. Meanwhile, Cuello, still on Power, manages
to push the bullets out of his body. He rushes to attack Robin in the market, but
Art arrived in time and stabs him to death just as the time on his Power runs out.
Art starts to sincerely ask Robin for help, and he says all he wants is to find his daughter.
Robin thinks he saves her life and then she treats Art’s wounds.
Cuts to Frank, he goes to Robin's house to find her, but he sees Robin's mother being
harassed by two cops. He sneaks into the house and pretends to be
her mother’s lover, nearly blowing his cover but manages to convince Robin's mother that
he’s a friend of Robin’s to get the cops out of the house.
Meanwhile, Art and Robin bond more, with him stating that he used to be a soldier.
Art asks her why she wants to be a drug dealer, and she replies, she needs more money to treat
her mother's illness. In addition, she tells him that she wants
to become a rapper and she spits a few rhymes for him.
Before they head out there, Robin demands 10000 dollars from whatever they get when
she leads him to the Power's presentation location.
On the way to the location, Art says that he was used in experiments for Power by a
corporation called " Teleios ". His daughter, Tracy was born with powers without
taking the drug, so a Teleios operative kidnapped her, and they are using her blood to create
the Power pills. During talking, Art’s memory then starts
to blend, where he thinks Robin is Tracy and that they are being followed, as they were
the day Tracy was taken. Later on, Robin manages to snap Art out of
his delusion before they crash.
Soon, he and Robin make it to the Power presentation location.
Art orders Robin to stay outside while he goes there alone because he worries about
her. Inside, he knocks out the ticket checker before
he gets the ticket and pretends to be the guest.
A little later, he sneaks in and finds Biggie presenting Power to a South American cartel
leader. Biggie touts the pill as having the abilities
of certain animals, specifically the ones that can adapt to survive.
Outside, Frank gets the information about the presentation of the Power pill and he
meets Robin. Frank gives Art's photo to her, as he also
claims Art is the head of the Power's process. However, Robin tells him everything she knows
about Art, but Frank still didn't trust her.
At the same time, a woman in the presentation has the power to freeze herself and regulate
her body temperature. Meanwhile, Art kills a man and gets closer
to Biggie, but he is found out by the South American cartel as Art holds Biggie at gunpoint.
The South American cartel said that Art can get Biggie and they just want to get the Power
pill. After knowing the South American cartel is
a betrayer, a firefight ensues between Biggie’s men, and the cartel is started.
While the messing, the woman, who is tester the Power and trapped in the demonstration
chamber and is frozen to death. The South America cartel was escaped, as Art
gets Biggie alone and shoots off three of his fingers before Biggie tells him that the
leader of the Power pill, who took Tracy, will be on a boat called, “ Genesis ”.
Meanwhile, Frank arrives and attempts to arrest Art until they realize they’re both working
with Robin. Unfortunately, during the are quarrel, Biggie
takes the Power pill to turn into a hulking big monster.
Immediately, the two escape the facility as Biggie chases them, but Art opens some gas
canisters and shoots at Biggie, causing an explosion that kills him.
After that, Frank arrests Art, it turns that he still thinks Art is the leader of the Power,
even though Robin claims he is innocent. After they left, Robin notices a bald man
named, Wallace, who is the person that art used to show her, is in there and she decides
to chase after the man.
On the way, Art tells Frank about Tracy and says that Captain Crane is taking orders from
the Power project's leader. Frank seems didn't trust him until Art says
about the coincidence things like, If he is the leader of the Power pill why does Captain
Crane order the only cop to arrest him. Meanwhile, the dirty cops and the villains
arrived, so it reveals that everything that Art said is real.
Afterward, Franks leaves his car and lets Art to arrests by the villains, because he
wants to follow them to find the main location.
Meanwhile, Robin chases after Wallace until she finds the location of Genesis.
A little later, Frank finds her in there, and he orders her to wait for him outside,
and Frank himself goes to help Art. After that, Frank takes a Power pill before
getting himself in by tough-talking the guard, only for the guard to shoot him, not realizing
Frank took Power to become invincible again, so he is able to get back up and sneak onto
the ship. Meanwhile, Art comes face-to-face with Dr.
Gardner, who was there experimenting on him from the beginning.
While Robin worries about Art and she sneaks into the boat causing her to meet Frank again
in the security room. Frank then goes alone to help Art while Robin
is in the security room to support him for lookout.
During finding Art, Frank faces off against a guard who Powered himself to make his limbs
rubbery, but Frank traps him in a door that will eventually sever his arm.
Meanwhile, Wallace knows what something wrong with the ship, and he takes the Power pill
to gain super strength. He breaks into the security room to find Robin,
but fortunately, she escapes the room in time.
Meanwhile, Art is captured but he convinces a guard to let him go when the guard sees
that Art has a Power pill in his mouth as a last resort.
The guard frees him, but Wallace finds him and Wallace gets blasted twice with a shotgun
before Frank gets Art. During that, Robin now is escaping then finds
Tracy and frees her. Soon, Art, Frank, Robin, and Tracy meet together
in front of the ship, while Dr. Gardner orders a guard to find them, who uses Power to make
his bones protrude to use as weapons. Art orders Frank, Robin, and Tracy to go before
him, while Art himself is fighting with the man.
Soon, Art manages to impale him with his bones, killing him.
After that, he goes to meet the others, but unfortunately, Robin is absent.
As the three try to get off the boat, Dr. Gardner comes out and demands that Art surrender
with Tracy, or she will kill Robin. Art goes out to confront Gardner, but he takes
the Power pill and gains the ability of a pistol shrimp, allowing him to create whips
that kill the henchmen and drop a crane on top of Gardner, killing her.
After that, Art almost dies, but Tracy uses her abilities to revive him, and finally,
the four are finally able to leave.
At the end of the movie, Frank brings Robin home and plans to expose everything of the
Power. Robin returns to her mother with her share
of the cash that Art promises to provide. Later, Art and Tracy drive away together over
a bridge, and the movie is ended with this scene.
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