Code 8

This is if I am not mistaken a Netflix platform exclusive release that came out the end of 2019. I tend to gravitate more towards science-fiction movies released directly to streaming than other genres because I love sci-fi especially the production design of them. Code 8 is a little different as it is a crime movie being disguised as a science-fiction movie, first the best part of a sci-fi movie is setting up the world we are witnessing, in this case what appears as a not so distant future where superhuman powers have manifested themselves (okay, now get X-Men out of your head). In this movie they are referred to as powered individuals and are classified based on their ability and strength, Robbie Awell is an electric class 5, that means he’s quite electrifying. His mother has ice powers and is sick, being a powered you have to sit out waiting for work similar to a migrant worker, needing money to help his mother he takes a job which ends up being for some robbery work ultimately reporting to a drug kingpin that deal in Psyke. Psyke is a drug that they get from taking spinal fluid from powered people creating hallucinations as a form of getting high. Of course a super power human movie would not be one without some force out trying to stop them, here it is the police armed with drones that can deploy robotic humanoid officers called Guardians. I started off quite enjoying this movie the setup, the world building with the Guardian program, then the more we got into this whole crime story and drug dealing it pulled away from me. Movies about drug dealing and running are probably on the lowest part of the totem pole for me, I don’t know why the subject material just does not interest me, I have never done drugs and don’t care to try, then they always seems to work in cliches of double crossing one of the dealers or runners. Strip that away from the movie and its a decent B rated science-fiction flick, I don’t think the acting was noteworthy, but it also did not suck. I think its fine for a little sci-fi action middle of the day you have nothing else to do or if you need to kill sometime on a flight.C.