Project Power

What if you could have a superpower for five minutes?

Oh, and since the power is unpredictable it might kill you.

Project Power, a new film starring Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback, looks at how much trouble it could cause.

The setup reminds me of Hourman, and Strikeforce: Morituri with a much shorter time limit and a rather less noble group of users, and the plot could work for the artificial superhuman drug Mite in Aberrant as well as Venom as used by Bane in Batman.

So it’s already a gameable concept, with just how temporary the boost can be possibly adding a bit of planning to a supers setup.

Update having seen it a month later:

It mostly uses the setup to hang occasional superhuman rampages on what is otherwise a pretty straightforward fun action movie, with a little bit of a message about human experimentation and not much about who has power and who can use it.

Best bit: a fight around a power containment cell shown from the inside.