If you’ve been dying for a movie where Melissa McCarthy eats a plateful of raw chicken, Netflix has you covered.

Thunder Force, which opened Friday and stars McCarthy as an inadvertent superhero, has such a scene – more than one, in fact – and it’s every bit as nauseating as it sounds. (Spoiler: no raw chickens were involved in the making of this movie.)

In Thunder Force, McCarthy’s character Lydia Berman bumbles her way into a laboratory and gets injected with a super serum (not unlike Captain America’s origin story) and gains super strength. The laboratory is run by her childhood best friend Emily Stanton (Octavia Spencer) who is a scientist developing that serum as well as a formula for turning people invisible.

The genetic modifications were both developed by and for Stanton, who wants to fight against the ‘Miscreants’, which in the movie is the name for people affected by a global event in which a burst of radiation enveloped the earth in the 80s, affecting only sociopaths and giving them super powers. (The movie doesn’t really get into the whys of this catastrophe.)

In the 80s, Emily’s parents were killed by Miscreants (in a short and poorly-executed sequence) and it propelled her to study science so that she grow up to avenge them. And that’s all the setup we get from writer/director Ben Falcone, who is McCarthy’s real-life husband.

Fast-forward to the present day, where Lydia’s trespassing means that she and Emily, estranged since their college days, must team up to fight the Miscreants. Despite this being a global event, the movie only concerns itself with a small group of mutants, including the “King” (Bobby Cannavale, Superintelligence), who is running for mayor of Chicago and also has super strength, and “Laser” (Pom Klementieff, Guardians of the Galaxy) who goes around, well, lasering things for no discernible reason.

Jason Bateman (Arrested Development, Ozark) rounds out the gang of baddies as “The Crab,” known thusly for his crab arms, which are in the world of the movie, his superpowers. The crab arms are poorly rendered, but Bateman’s character is one of them more enjoyable parts of the movie.

After the requisite training montage, Lydia and Emily make with the superhero stuff, taking out the aforementioned Miscreants here and there in the Chicagoland area. The whole operation is pretty unfocused; just some random encounters between the two groups that gradually escalate in property damage.

There are some nice moments along the way; Bateman’s character and McCarthy’s (who previously starred together in Identity Thief) forge an unlikely romance that’s kind of sweet, and Marcella Lowery as Emily’s grandmother and Taylor Mosby as Emily’s daughter have fun with their roles. There’s some good physical comedy and any film that allows women of a certain age to take center stage is more than welcome.

But taken as a whole, Thunder Force is lacking direction (literally; Falcone’s direction leaves a lot of unanswered questions) and it fails to be really satisfying.