A sinister drug turns ordinary people invincible for five minutes in a visually busy conspiracy thriller, starring Jamie Foxx and Dominique Fishback, that's more hurtling than hypnotic. By Owen Gleiberman. Chief Film Critic. The bottom half of the pill is dark and ridged, the top half is a bright orange Tesla energy field. The drug affects different takers in different ways — or maybe it just depends on which piece of visual-effects flimflam the filmmakers feel like unleashing at any given moment. Yet watching it, you may find yourself aware of how patched together the whole thing is. The drug is part of a master plan to control people: to take away their power by giving them a false sense of power. That sounds like a tasty theme, but the script, by Mattson Tomlin, is a threadbare piece of work that makes you long for the sinister specificity and rooted danger of a good drug drama. And yet…every watchable but ultimately just okay Netflix potboiler should have an actor as inspired as Jamie Foxx at its center. But he settles into a groove and becomes a stalwart presence.


Reviewed online, Aug. 12, 2020. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 113 MIN.
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Foxx was raised by his grandparents after his parents separated. He enjoyed a happy upbringing, going to church every day with his grandparents and excelling at everything from academics to music to football. Foxx studied music while a student at the U. International University in San Diego; it was during his college days that he got his start as a stand-up comedian. Attending a comedy club one night with some friends, he was encouraged to take the stage and perform some impersonations, which proved incredibly popular with the audience. Foxx's enthusiastic reception led to his decision to move to L.
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Eric Marlon Bishop born December 13, , [1] better known by his stage name Jamie Foxx , is an American actor, singer, comedian, and producer. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. Since spring , Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam. In , Foxx joined the cast as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color until the show's end in Following this success, Foxx was given his own television sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show , in which he starred, co-created and produced, airing for five highly rated seasons from to on The WB Television Network. Foxx is also a Grammy Award -winning musician, producing four albums, which have charted in the top ten of the U. Shortly after his birth, Foxx was adopted and raised by his mother's adoptive parents, Esther Marie Nelson , a domestic worker and nursery operator, and Mark Talley, a yard worker. Foxx began playing the piano when he was five years old. Foxx attended Terrell High School , where he received top grades and played basketball and football as quarterback. His ambition was to play for the Dallas Cowboys , and he was the first player in the school's history to pass for more than 1, yards.
He began playing piano about age five and became keenly interested in music , later earning a scholarship to United States International University later Alliant International University in San Diego to study classical piano and music theory. While attending school, Bishop began performing at local comedy clubs. At open-mike nights he delighted audiences with his bitingly funny impersonations of former U. Discovering that it was easier for women to get stage time at open-mike nights, Bishop adopted the gender-neutral name of Jamie Foxx. At that time Foxx also had a recurring role on the sitcom Roc. In he released his debut album, Peep This , which he also produced and composed. Two years later he landed his own television sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show , which lasted five seasons. That year Foxx was also nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in the thriller Collateral , in which he appeared as a taxi driver abducted by a professional killer played by Tom Cruise. Foxx released his second album, Unpredictable , in , and it quickly rose to the top of the Billboard album chart. In Foxx had lead roles in The Soloist , as a homeless man who was once a musical prodigy, and in the thriller Law Abiding Citizen.