You love tactical gear porn, Florence Pugh in tactical gear, or seeing superheroes treated as horror villains. Skip if: You need a single joke, a coherent character arc, or a runtime under two hours.
Leading the Supercops is ( Michael B. Jordan —intense, brooding, overqualified). His partner is Sgt. Lena Petrova ( Florence Pugh —the film’s only consistent bright spot), a tech-whiz who fights with drone swarms and EMP grenades. Together, they have 72 hours to stop Arclight—without a single superpower of their own. The Good: Tactical Porn and Real Stakes When the film focuses on procedure , it sings. The best sequence: the Supercops raid a skyscraper where Boomer has turned every glass pane into a sonic cannon. They don’t punch through the problem; they use thermal scans, acoustic dampeners, and a decoy elevator rigged with explosives. It’s “Heat” meets “The Raid.” You feel the vulnerability—one wrong step and a super villain turns them into red mist. supercops vs super villains
The villains are wasted. Lord Arclight monologues about “human fragility” for ten minutes before every fight. Phantom, who can walk through walls, is reduced to a jump-scare machine. And the film commits a cardinal sin: a second-act training montage that’s just cops shooting targets while frowning. No music. No fun. Just grit. You love tactical gear porn, Florence Pugh in
They came to serve and protect. They forgot to entertain. Jordan —intense, brooding, overqualified)