😍 2022-03-16 23:09:15 – Paris/France.
By Francisco Vidal
The premise of time travel is always a guaranteed eye-catcher when telling a story in film. With “Back to the Future” as a great reference, the difficulty is often to avoid derailing or complicating things under this utopian idea of such a scientific advance.
"The Adam Project", The movie that's trending on Netflix these days avoids those complications and comes off as an entertaining family adventure that has it all: action, good special effects, and a moving story.
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The story begins in the year 2050, with Adam Reed (Ryan Reynolds), a veteran pilot who is persecuted by the military in a dystopian future and who, thanks to advances in technology, jumps back in time to the year 2022.
What we quickly learn is that he's on a mission to rescue his girlfriend, Laura (Zoe Saldana), who went missing on one of those trips. The problem is that he arrived that year by mistake, since he wanted to travel to 2018. To put things right, he crosses paths with his own 12-year-old version, a boy who suffers from bullying and who will help him, hand in hand with the father of the two (Mark Ruffalo) to change the dark future of society.
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Without ceasing to be a fairly predictable blockbuster, “The Adam Project” begins with eighties aesthetics and narration and does its job perfectly: it's quite original and entertaining.
With great action choreography and some interesting time travel ideas, the dialogues offer an intense relationship between the different versions of Adam and his father. The mistakes of the past, what we would change and what is inevitable alternate in a scenario which, beyond being a little flat, has a good dose of emotion.
Another factor that makes the success of the sci-fi feature film is essential: it's fun; one of those movies that in moments of comedy, even if you don't let out a laugh, keeps you smiling.
Reynolds again gets a likeable, bubbly character, as usual. He also makes a great duet with Ruffalo. Walker Scobell, the pre-teen version of the protagonist, is one of the film's big surprises, with compelling innocence and a hopeful outlook.
The cast is completed by Jennifer Garner and Catherine Keener. “The Adam Project” was directed by Shawn Levy (he worked with Reynolds on “Free Guy” and will direct him on “Deadpool 3”).
Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin, TS Nowlin and Jonathan Tropper wrote the script for this film, which isn't unforgettable, but it's a great plan for a Saturday night.
SOURCE: Reviews News
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