A bad sign: I watched a movie, and then completely forgot to review it. Like, completely. I’m not sure that’s ever happened before, with the caveat that, arguably, I’d have no way to know?

The Power[1] (which I watched probably in late May; early June at the absolute latest) is most superficially about rolling blackouts in London in  the early 1970s, which I think were a real thing but do not have sufficient interest to research. So there’s this nurse fresh out of nurse school who is assigned to an infant ward at night, because the power will be out and they cannot be moved or something. For some reason, the details are hazy. So anyway, creepy hospital at night with no power, clearly this is my jam,

Then, weird things start happening. But are the things real? Are they possession? Prankster coworkers? A ghost? The strength of the movie, on paper at least, is in the second act’s tension when you cannot be sure what’s really happening. In practice… it never quite gelled for me. And it definitely didn’t stick with me afterwards!

To save you the trouble, yes there’s eventually clarity on what is going on, and why.

[1] I hate when this happens, but there are actually two movies with that name that came out in 2021. This is the one with the nurse, not the one with the gangster.