The Adam Project Review

 

The Adam Project is a sci-fi film. It's produced by Skydance Media, 21 Laps Entertainment, and Maximum Effort and distributed by Netflix. The Adam Project is written by Jonathan Tropper, T.S. Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett, and Mark Levin and directed by Shawn Levy.

The story is it's the year 2050 and the future is bleak, Adam has stolen a time jet and escapes. He plans to go on a recuse mission to the year 2018, but he crash lands in 2022 instead and meets his 12 year old self. Now the two have no choice but to team up, fix the time jet, and rescue the person who's in grave danger.

Initial Reaction

The main reason why I wanted to see this movie was because of Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy. Shawn's brought us some pretty good movies. Big Fat Liar, Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Real Steel, and Free Guy. And Ryan Reynolds...do I really need to say anything about him? Not only is he a really good actor, but he's also one cool guy.

Cons

I've got nothing to say. Let's move on.

Middle Ground

Now for the most part, the CGI is really good. It's flawless throughout a good portion of the film. But they do try to make a young looking version of Catherine Keener, and it's very distracting. It's very understandable that trying to make a human face with CG is very challenging. So I will give them an a for effort, but like I said very distracting. I almost feel obligated to agree with people when they said that effect looks like something from the Sims.

Pros

Now let's get to more positives aspect of The Adam Project one of those being the humor. Sometimes it didn't work, for a majority of the movie I had a lot of great laughs. What I also enjoyed was the performances. Not surprised by the older actors such as Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, and the others. Of course they would have great performances, they're veterans. But I was very much surprised by Walker Scobell, who plays the 12 year old version of our main character, Adam. Despite being a child actor, he did a really good job. Another positive to the movie was the action. It probably won't be as remembered as other scenes, but for this movie it worked. It was energetic, exciting, and fun. I'm also going to give props to Levy's directing. While things aren't getting as crazy as his last film [Free Guy], he still directed something that's very serviceable and I think something that audiences will like. Speaking of serviceable let's talk about those emotional moments. I honestly thought they were pretty good. Much like the action, this isn't gonna be award winning, but those scenes do the job pretty well. I was actually feeling something between the two Adams and the dad.

Overall The Adam Project is pretty good. We got good humor, good acting, fun sci-fi action, Levy did great behind the camera, and the emotional scenes are pretty effective. The only grey area was the CGI. For everything else, it's good. But that de-aged Keener, yikes.

My final rating is Good.

So that's going to do it for me. Come back on Saturday, Mar 19th for the newest Hulu movie, Deep Water. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.