PROJECT POWER
Top-notch power and moral purpose, but for adults and older teens.
Should You Watch It?
You get top-notch entertainment here. The cast is strong, the slow-motion action is entertaining, the CGI editing is excellent, and the music supports the movie’s themes. More importantly, the story stresses saving people from harm and honors friendship, family, sacrifice, and parental love.
The cost is substantial. The movie contains lots of foul language and violence, including very strong violence, along with references to evolution. Its villains want power for personal gain and manipulate other people as they see fit.
If you are an older teenager or adult who can thoughtfully handle that content, this has real merit. For children and young teens, choose something else. The practical answer: watch it only if you are an older teen or adult prepared for its strong content.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESIn New Orleans, a pill gives whoever takes it a different supernatural power for five minutes. Art is searching for the supplier because the dealers have kidnapped his daughter and are testing the pill on her.
His search brings him to Robin, a teenage dealer trying to earn money for her diabetic mother’s needed surgery. Frank, a police officer and Robin’s friend, is also working to uncover the truth and protect the French Quarter from the bad guys.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this is top-notch entertainment. PROJECT POWER has a good cast led by Jamie Foxx, along with top-notch production quality. The slow-motion action sequences are entertaining, the CGI editing is great, and the nondiegetic music score aligns well with the movie’s themes.
The film’s craft supports its science-fiction thriller premise effectively. Its moral purpose also gives the action a strong foundation: saving people from harm, friendship, and family remain central to the experience.
The Worldview
The movie strongly emphasizes a father doing whatever it takes to protect his daughter. In the process, he befriends and cares for a teenager who does not have a father. Sacrifice, motherly love, friendship, and protecting vulnerable people are treated as meaningful goods.
The villains represent a humanist hunger for control. They want power for personal gain and do not care who gets in their way, seeking to manipulate others as they see fit. The movie also presents evolution as part of its explanation for the pill, including claims about humans becoming more evolved and examples involving animal evolution.
The film’s strongest moral ideas align with biblical concern for family, friendship, sacrifice, and rescuing people from harm. Its treatment of power is less secure because it places human control and personal gain at the center of the villains’ ambitions. Scripture calls believers to a different kind of strength: “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong worldview where a father will do whatever it takes to protect his daughter and in the process winds up befriending and caring for a teenager who doesn’t have a father, sacrifice extolled, motherly love displayed, friendship depicted, villains display humanist characteristics as they want power for their own personal gain and don’t care who gets in their way in the process, plus evolution mentioned when it comes to a superpower pill’s ability to morph humans into more evolved versions of themselves, and animal evolution mentioned (for instance, villains claim that frogs will break their legs just to ward off predators and things of that sort as they try to convince skeptics that the power pills are worth taking
Foul Language
25 obscenities (mainly “s” words and “h” words with a few uses of the “f” word including two times where it’s just mouthed by characters), four string profanities, a few “shut ups,” and one use of “frickin”
Violence
Very strong violence includes guns used, man stabs someone in the throat with an ice sculpture, woman gets tazed, man’s fingers get shot off, and blood is shown, man with special powers is engulfed in fire until he gets blown up in an explosion, combat violence, multiple characters get clothes-lined, villain threatens to kill a minor
Sex
No sex
Nudity
Upper male nudity in two scenes
Alcohol Use
One scene in a bar and one character who appears to have a bottle of alcohol in his hand, but it’s unclear if that’s the case
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
Smoking in one scenes but it’s hardly noticeable, music with drug references, the premise of the movie revolves around experimental pills that get pushed in the same way other illicit drugs do;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Greed.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Art’s determination to protect his daughter drives the story. What responsibilities come with loving and protecting the people God has entrusted to you?
1 Timothy 5:8 · Psalm 82:3–4Robin deals the pills to help her diabetic mother. How can compassion guide our choices without making harmful actions right?
Micah 6:8 · Romans 12:9The villains seek power for personal gain and manipulate others. What does Jesus say greatness and power should look like?
Mark 10:42–45The story values friendship between people who might otherwise distrust one another. How can a friend help carry another person’s burdens?
Proverbs 17:17 · Galatians 6:2The Final Word
PROJECT POWER offers excellent action, a strong cast, and a moral emphasis on family, friendship, sacrifice, and saving people from harm. Its strong violence, foul language, and evolutionary references make it unsuitable for children and young teens. For older teenagers and adults, the answer is WORTH THE TRIP — ADULTS ONLY.
