Looks like my superhero jones is sticking around, so let’s look a film that takes that idea rather literally: Superpowers as drugs. It’s something tied into the darker aspects of a world with superpowers, where the option of taking a pill to get your own power set becomes a dilemma of whether you’d survive the trip and, more pointedly, what kind of person you’d become in the aftermath. ‘Power corrupts’ as the saying goes, and with this Nawlins-set sci-fi thriller about a new drug that gives the user a superpower for five minutes, quite a few questions get brought up. Not a lot of them get answered, though.
