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The Power of Few

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Urban crime and religious conspiracy mix as an event unfolds from multiple perspectives.
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Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter 05/08/2013
The picture... can't be said to break any new ground in the gritty, mean-streets genre. But it has a better-than-average cast and a few clever plot twists, and it ends up being an occasionally amusing time-killer. Go to Full Review
Robert Abele Los Angeles Times 02/22/2013
2/5
A ham-fisted, timeline-altering variety pack of crime set in New Orleans. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 08/07/2019
The Power of Few clearly suffers from too many cooks in the kitchen, both in production and on the page. Go to Full Review
J.C. Maçek III PopMatters 04/11/2013
6/10
The Power of Few still feels very "independent" and, more importantly, original. Even if its cast is filled with well-known actors, the film embraces risky, unconventional storytelling. Go to Full Review
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) 04/01/2013
3/4
I had never heard of screenwriter/director Leone Marucci before. But you can bet I will remember his name after seeing 'The Power of Few.' Go to Full Review
Brent Simon Shared Darkness 03/20/2013
C-
A jumbled, offbeat mash-up of conspiracy-tinged action and armchair philosophizing that is hamstrung by a strange combination of slapdash plotting and its own self-importance. Go to Full Review
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Mike P 07/14/2024 The Power of Few is a convoluted mess of non-linear, interconnected plot lines, none of which are very compelling on their own and yet the whole is still less than the sum of its parts. This movie is like if a high school student tried to write something like Magnolia. See more George R 10/11/2023 Tragic abuse of terrific acting talent by. dreadful directing makes you understand why the apprentice editor got an opening credit. New Orleans was equally misused. The insignificant box office earnings say it all. This, in show biz terms, was a plotcher. See more vince b 10/21/2022 Need more Walken! (and Anthony Anderson) This one was a great find on Tubi. See more 04/08/2020 Amazing working with the crew the whole while in New Orleans' 9th Ward Nov. 2010 post-Katrina. Fascinating how producer Q'Orianka Kilcher involved the community of New Orleans and the world in online casting, engaging budding filmmakers online in internat5ional competition to take raw footage and create Scene 64 that was entered into the movie. The technical crew was precision personified blowing up cars and flipping them in the tight intersection of the French Quarter, creating costumes and makeup and sets to seamlessly fit the characters & story line. Every actor and crew member brought their A-game, including Christopher Walken - I still don't know if he's CIA or not and his homeless buddy played by Jordan Prentice, Christian Slater as the good police force operative, Nicky Whelan as the bad op, Q'Orianka Kilcher as the courier looking for something more, Jesse Bradford a maybe hustler running from Anthony Anderson & Juvenile as local crime bosses, Moon Youngblood & Derek Richardson play soon-to-be-parents where he's caught in life & death choices, Kim Blacklock as The Bag called in to interrogate Navid Negahban's character - who we never know who he is - in the darkest moment of the film, Larry King as himself, and introducing Tione Johnson as perhaps the wisest as the little girl Few. The tight writing of the script didn't give any answers, just showed you what was happening from many converging perspectives in one day in the 9th Ward of NOLA. Genius cinematography by Reinhart Peschke, note-worthy first time feature film directing by Leone Marucci, experienced efficient go-to man in1st AD Matthew Wilson Ross, and phenomenal stunt coordinator in Lin Oeding. See more 04/12/2018 Clever. Underrated. Refreshing. See more farah r @Farah 09/23/2016 Bland and overdramatized. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Urban crime and religious conspiracy mix as an event unfolds from multiple perspectives.
Director
Leone Marucci
Producer
Jimmy Holcomb, Q'orianka Kilcher, Fred D'Amico, Roy Scott MacFarland
Screenwriter
Leone Marucci
Production Co
Steelyard Pictures, iQ Films
Rating
R (Violence|Language|Brief Drug Use)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 25, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$22.1K
Runtime
1h 35m
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