Pity the casual moviegoer who just wanted to see a Marlon Wayans football flick, or a Jordan Peele-produced horror joint. Because is, instead, a mind-scrambling primal scream in the spirit of anti-capitalist provocations by the likes of Robert Downey Sr ( ), Boots Riley ( ), and Coralie Fargeat ( ).

It does start generically enough; in flashback, we find a football-mad family cheering their beloved San Antonio Saviors. Dad is particularly obsessed, and he sees future glory in his young son. Ten years later, he's been proved right: Cam ( ’s Tyriq Withers) is a rising star quarterback tapped to replace the Saviors’ retiring hero, Isaiah White (Wayans). First, though, he has to prove himself at White’s private boot camp.

Cam is still recovering from a mysterious attack that left h

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