The Adam Project Review: Netflix With Adventures, Time Travel Science Fiction, Meta Humor And A Timeless Love Story

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Braxton Bjerken, Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner

Director: Shawn Levy

Streaming Platform: Netflix (click to watch)

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3.5/5 (three and half star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

On March 11, the movie The Adam Project arrives on Netflix, a date strategically chosen to “hover” Father’s Day since it develops a family adventure in which parent-child relationships are in the spotlight. Directed by Shawn Levy, the creator of the hilarious Free Guy, which returns to have Ryan Reynolds in the title role, although he is very well accompanied by Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener and Mark Ruffalo, as well as newcomer Walker Scobell.

The Adam Project Review: The Story

The Adam Project stars Adam Reed (Ryan Reynolds) who, aboard a time jet from a dark 2050 ends up, with wrong coordinates, in 2022 Here, in fact, he meets the young version of himself (Walker Scobell, che bravo!), To whom he explains that he should have landed in 2018, to save his partner, Laura (Zoe Saldana), also a traveler. storm, and above all to block the birth of the Adam Project, set up by that Father Louis (Mark Ruffalo), who then died two years later, leaving the time machine to Maya Sorian (Catherine Keener), an unscrupulous financier who, in the decades to come, he would then keep the world by the balls.

As mentioned, time travel is an incredibly fascinating factor, and therefore The Adam Project carves out a leading role in the argument, without too much bothering them citing Back to the Future, Terminator, Interstellar, Face to Face and 30 Years in 1 Second, in which the protagonists were Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Garner, who in the film by Shaw Levy is Louis’s wife and Adam’s mother. Not only that, if you look carefully there could also be a hint of the (phantom?) Figure of John Titor (don’t you know him? He is the first, great urban legend to appear on the net, look here), a space-time warrior who, according to him, has come back to save the world from a catastrophe. But, behind the film’s most spectacular set-up, which works to the right extent, it is instead the intimate aspect that makes The Adam Project functional and, in its own way, decidedly revealing and exciting. Appearance, this, supported by a very well assembled casting.

However, since Adam takes over a ship illegally and is persecuted for it, he ends up in the wrong era and trapped in 2022. There, he will only think of turning to those he knows and trusts: the members of his own family. In this way, he will contact his thirteen-year-old version, which will not only help him to understand himself better, but also to relate to his parents in a different way.

The Adam Project Review And Analysis

Thus, supported by a strong empathic drive, broadening the emotional spectrum amplified by a not bad soundtrack. The Adam Project it begins and ends with the emblematic question with which we opened our review. The relationship with the past, rather than the dream of the future is the definitive key, the one that ideally resolves the anger felt by Adam, as well as his need to forgive himself. and forgive the dramatic absence of his father. Between temporal intersections and echoes lost in the memory of a physical formula, what Shaw Levy wants to do – and succeeds – is to put us in contact with the other half of us, push us to live the present moment and free ourselves from the chains of suffocated emotions. So that no hugs go to waste. Because, in the end everything is okay.

Of course, do not expect great boasts of originality in the script, since it is a proposal focused 100% on pure and simple entertainment. The metalinguistic jokes make it inevitable to name the Terminator as a great referent, but the film takes all the shortcuts it can to avoid time paradoxes and therefore, shakes off the clutter. It almost snaps at the viewer to get out of trouble and enjoy the action and emotion, which are, after all, the great claims to see it.

The chemistry between the characters is very good, both between parents and children and between different temporary versions, although what takes the cake is the timeless love story between Adam and Laura. Ryan Reynolds and Zoe Saldana get along wonderfully on screen. In short, with expectations adjusted to a somewhat formulaic story, The Adam Project satisfactorily provides a good time of evasion in which the violence is quite measured (there is no blood) and the media deployment is quite ambitious, although where the chest the film is in the most intimate aspects of the narrative.

Ryan Reynolds is the center of everything and he gives exactly what is expected of him: his usual charisma and cheeky humor are a trademark of the house and he also brings out the brilliance of the wonderful tandem with the debutant Walker Scobell. Of course, there will be those who consider that the film misses the talent of some of the great performers who meet in the film, but it is also true that each of them has their moment to shine, giving an extra patina to a story that otherwise mode would be quite generic.

The Adam Project– winking right from the title to the various secret experiments usually at the center of US or even world conspiracies – in short, it shows a story that develops over several chapters – more encounters in time travel that almost mark an ideal timer that the characters must resolve the situation – including a central one that perhaps needed to be slightly dried. The heart of the story is the theme of family mourning, which if in Onward for example was resolved through magic, here it is science fiction that comes to the aid of the protagonist, with action scenes that make their figure even at a directorial level. Confirming that it is also a coming of age and a film for children, at first almost Spielbergian and with various tributes and quotes inside it, like the inevitable one in the Back to the Future saga or the Star Wars one. A kind of the revenge of the nerds through time travel.

The Adam Project Review: The Last Words

The Adam Project by reiterating how the film keeps its initial promises, namely that of being clearly a family film – for large and small audiences – even before a sci-fi, which tries to simplify any gender discourse for get to the heart of the story, which deals with the theme of mourning and the family using time travel as a pretext and a resolution tool. A film with a well-chosen cast and a solid plot in its simplicity.

Shawn Levy takes it upon himself with a movie not recommended for children under 13 years of age that has a bit of everything: adventure, science fiction, meta humor, romance and captivating characters. Good family cinema to enjoy on dates close to Father’s Day. The quality of the special effects and the fact that it is an unpretentious family adventure film.