Jason Reliford

After I started pretending it was just a coincidence that the characters shared the same names as Cowboy Bebop it was a little more tolerable. A live action adaptation wasn't needed and this Netflix show proved it. It started off comical (not in a good way) and landed someplace weird and only mildly entertaining all the whole reminding you it wanted to be something it could not be.

I wish luck and success to the child actors involved in this movie and hopefully they will be able to overcome whatever setbacks this film creates for them. Not scary. Not suspenseful. Unimaginative. I needed two cups of coffee to get through what I assume was most of it before I simply couldn't take it anymore.

After watching the movie I was not at all surprised to see the negative reviews online. It's funny how meticulously they pick apart movies like this that show complex black characters. True, at it's heart it is a generic "save my daughter" story, but being a single Black father of two girls in Louisiana I could relate to this character and enjoyed this movie more than any in the MCU. Yes, I said it. At first I wasn't too keen on the beautiful and talented Dominique Fishback being relegated to a "I wanna rap trap girl" but that was the shallow view of a deeper pool. Soon I saw some of my friends in her character. The backdrop was real to me. Could it have been better? Of course...if it had Disney kind of money and pull behind it. I could see this being a franchise with Project Power being simply the first leg of an urban super hero race. I think the cast did a fantastic job.