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Is Project Power OK for Kids?

ActionCrimeScience Fiction
17+
R⭐ 6.0 / 102020 · 1h 53m
Ariel Schulman

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What's In It

Based on the actual screenplay
🗡️Violence
Extreme▼
Moments in the script, mildest → most intense
0
Cartoon / Comedic
4
Action & Peril
1
Injuries & Death Shown
5
Graphic & Disturbing
  • Major interrogates Newt and transforms into an animal form, destroying the kitchen with superhuman violence in a graphic, body-horror moment
  • Art takes the final pill, transforms into a powerful creature, and kills a woman holding Robin hostage in a sudden, graphic act
  • Newt's house explodes after Major's interrogation, destroying the building with implied casualties
  • Frank is shot during the ship infiltration and continues fighting while bleeding; multiple shootouts occur between NOPD, military, and criminals throughout the film
  • Overall tone is gritty and action-driven with recurring graphic transformation violence and gunfights, not comedic in nature
💬Language
Extreme▼
Moments in the script, mildest → most intense
0
Mild Words
(damn, hell)
3
Moderate
(ass, b**ch)
8
Strong
(sh*t)
54
Extreme
(f**k)
  • Extreme profanity is frequent: 's**t' (28 times), 'f**k/f**king' (12 times), 'da**' (8 times), and 'hell' (6 times)
  • Strong language also includes 'a**' (6 times) and 'b**ch' (2 times)
  • Moderate words 'cr*p' (2 times) and 'p**s' (1 time) also appear
  • This is pervasive, unfiltered street-level dialogue with no censorship of profanity
👻Scary Scenes
Extreme▼
Moments in the script, mildest → most intense
0
Mildly Tense
1
Startling Moments
2
Genuinely Scary
2
Deeply Disturbing
  • Major's animal transformation during the interrogation scene involves grotesque body horror that could disturb sensitive viewers
  • A woman is shown frozen in an ice tank while undergoing a thermoregulation power test, screaming as her body is affected
  • Robin is kidnapped and trapped in a car trunk, a claustrophobic and threatening sequence
  • An invisible bank robber causes startling, sudden attacks throughout the city
  • Scary content resolves through action and rescue rather than lingering horror, but the transformation and freezing scenes are visually disturbing
💕Romance
Moderate▼
Moments in the script, mildest → most intense
0
Crushes & Holding Hands
1
Kissing & Dating
1
Suggestive
0
Sexual Content
  • Frank and a woman share a brief kiss in one scene
  • A man is shown in the shower at Robin's house, implying a domestic partnership without explicit content
  • No sexual content is depicted on screen
🍺Substances
Extreme▼
Moments in the script, mildest → most intense
1
Mentioned in Passing
1
Shown Casually
3
Featured Prominently
1
Glorified or Abused
  • 'Power' pills are the central plot device, marketed to and sold by young people, framed as granting superpowers — a glorified depiction of a dangerous drug
  • Robin deals pills to survive, with drug transactions shown throughout the film as a means of supporting her diabetic mother
  • Multiple characters take pills on screen with doses and effects discussed extensively, including government testing on citizens without consent
  • Fetal alcohol syndrome is discussed in a classroom scene, and weed and coke are referenced casually in dialogue
  • Drug use is shown with real consequences, including Art's fatal transformation, rather than being consequence-free
⚡Stimulation
Extreme▼
Moments in the script, mildest → most intense
0
Gently Engaging
1
Exciting
3
Intense
1
Overwhelming
  • High-speed car chases through New Orleans streets with multiple collisions
  • The ship infiltration sequence combines alarms, gunfire, and back-to-back combat encounters
  • The overwhelming bank robbery sequence, with an invisible perpetrator causing chaos and confusion
  • The final confrontation on the ship deck involves a hostage situation with multiple armed parties
  • Sensory-sensitive children and those under 8 would likely find these sequences overwhelming
Project Power — Heads Up for Parents

Despite an action-movie premise, parents should be aware the film includes a scene where a woman is shown frozen and screaming inside an ice tank during a drug side-effect test — a disturbing image that may catch parents off guard given the film's superhero-adjacent marketing.

About Project Power

In near-future New Orleans, a mysterious pill called 'Power' lets users gain a random superhuman ability for five minutes, sparking a black-market drug trade. A former soldier searching for his kidnapped daughter teams up with a cop and a teenage drug-dealing rapper to take down the corporation behind the pill, in a gritty, action-heavy thriller with body horror elements and heavy street-level violence.

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Watch with your child
Given the extreme profanity (54 total instances of strong/extreme language), graphic transformation violence, and the plot's depiction of drug dealing by a teenage character, older teens should watch with a parent present to discuss the film's themes of exploitation, poverty, and drug use.

Family Takeaways from Project Power

What it gets right

  • ✓The film shows Robin's responsibility caring for her diabetic mother, portraying a teen forced into maturity by circumstance
  • ✓Frank and Robin's partnership demonstrates mutual respect and teamwork across generational and authority lines

Project Power Cultural & Values Guide

Cultural & Values Guide

No cultural or religious themes detected for this film.

Cast:Jamie FoxxJoseph Gordon-LevittDominique FishbackRodrigo SantoroCourtney B. Vance

Is Project Power Appropriate for Your Child's Age?

✗Age 5: Not recommended for 5-year-olds
✗Age 8: Not recommended for 8-year-olds
✗Age 10: Not recommended for 10-year-olds
✗Age 12: Not recommended for 12-year-olds
✗Age 13: Not recommended for 13-year-olds
✗Age 15: Not recommended for 15-year-olds
✓Age 17: Generally appropriate for 17-year-olds

Individual children may vary — use your judgment.

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