The Adam project

​"The Adam project"

Watched English movie "The Adam project". 

This film is directed by Shawn Levy. Written by Jonathan Tropper. Produced by David Ellison and others. Music by Rob Simonsen. Cinematography by Tobias Schliessler. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobel, Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener. The film runs for about1 1 hour and 45 minutes and was released in Mar 2022. I watched it with Aditi on Netflix on 1st April 2022. 

It’s 2050. Adam steals a jet and jumps (time travels) to 2018, but reaches 2022 instead. He is injured. He goes to his home and meets his 12 year old self. He wants to go to 2018 to find his missing wife and to investigate a time anomaly. He can’t do it without 12 year old himself due to his injury. 

It’s a time travel movie. So there’s time travel, there are killer bots from future, there is the complex timeline and the possibilities of altering the timeline, there’s meeting dead person by going back and other complexities. 

Ryan Reynolds plays future Adam. His performance is ok. Walker Scobel plays 12 year old Adam and he excels is in the role. He portrays the mature 12 year old convincingly. Jennifer plays and looks the loving mother. 

The pace is decent. The directions is decent. There are flaws. How does the bullet turn after traveling the right amount? Why is it necessary to do hand to hand combat with future bots when ultra modern weaponry is at disposal? How does the father die? But you don’t ask such questions in an action movie. 

The movie is shallow. Director could have made it more meaningful. 

Positives: Walker. Some sets. 

Negatives: Shallowness. 

Watch if you like time travel movies.