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diogo13 T @Tua_mera Jul 14 An independent science fiction film with good ideas and impressive visual effects for its budget. The problem is that the narrative deviates from its interesting social concept to become a very generic heist movie, resulting in a mediocre experience that promised much more than it delivers. See more tommy J @RT55566390 Dec 1 Cool movie, watched it after seeing the 2nd. Very cool the Amell brothers get to work together. See more David C @Davec26 Nov 6 Parts sci fi, part gangster movie. Decent in both parts See more Goose R. @rodrigug Oct 9 In the future , 4% of the population has powers. Connor has the power of electricity, however to get a license to work using the powers is very expensive. He is struggling to make ends meet, while having a mom with a terminal disease. Story line is cool and it has come good twists but at the end it’s just an average super powers movie 🍿🍿🍿/5 on Netflix See more Jonathan K @aFIREintheattic Sep 28 First off, I thought the two lead actors look like they could be cousins and so it was a weird casting choice to have them not be related in the movie. Well, it turns out they literally are cousins. Okay. The movie's fine. Even good, I guess. The world they built is cool, and I wanted more of that: the politics, the cultures, the socio-political landscape. I wanted a bigger scope, which is the kind of thing I usually want from sci-fi. Show me what the governments are up to, whether the police force is corrupt, stuff like that. In a dystopian world like this, you just know there's a lot more happening than the smaller, emotional, familial story they chose to tell. That story, mother and son, is kind of rote, and it wasn't even executed all that well. I found myself not really caring. Robbie Amell didn’t sell the emotion for me, maybe because his character was making shady choices, which is harder to connect with. The special effects were good, the class-based powers were interesting, but overall it felt like two movies smashed together. The first half worked better. It had world-building, newsreels, learning about powers, the drugs, the syndicate. The second half, with the son desperate to save his mother, was much smaller in scope, and I just wasn’t into it. The pacing really dragged there. See more Natalie A @NAldous73 08/02/2025 I am writing the review whilst still watching it! I am that disengaged and bored. Predictable, I am afraid really nothing new. I would like to say something nice but I can't think of anything positive about this film. It sometimes has nice camera shots that reminds me of District 9 that's pretty much it. Is it really only just over an hour and a half 😲 See more Read all reviews

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