Project Power 🎥 2020 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In near-future New Orleans, a mysterious distributor offers a free supply of “Power”—a pill that grants various superpowers for five minutes—to a group of drug dealers, including one named Newt. Newt’s teenage cousin Robin is a dealer herself and is friends with NOPD Officer Frank Shaver, one of her regular buyers; Frank’s Power makes him bulletproof. Art, a man hunting for the distributor “Biggie”, tracks down Newt, who eventually explodes while overdosing on Power. Frank foils a bank robbery by a Power-enhanced thief, but is suspended for using Power himself.

His captain reveals that government personnel are pressuring him to terminate any investigation into Power, and gives Frank a picture of the man they suspect to be the source of the drug: Art. Using Newt’s phone to find and abduct Robin, Art forces her to take him to the drug cartel’s safehouse. He is shot while fighting the cartel’s men, and discovers that Power users in New Orleans are being monitored as test subjects for the drug. Art bonds with Robin as she treats his wounds, and reveals that after leaving the military, he was recruited by Teleios, a private defense contractor who experimented on him to create superpowers. His daughter Tracy, born after the experiments, exhibited powers without ever taking the drug, and was abducted by Wallace, a Teleios operative.

Art and Robin find Biggie hosting a private demonstration of Project Power for a potential buyer near the Superdome, where large groups of Saints fans are arriving for a home game. Biggie claims that Power represents “the next evolution of the human species”, with the pill’s powers derived from the abilities of animals, such as the chameleon or the wolverine frog. Art interrogates Biggie at gunpoint and learns of a ship, the Genesis, but Frank intervenes, having tracked other users to the demonstration.

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