The Adam Project

2022 - 3 - 10

The Adam Project Feels Like a Fake Movie (unknown)

Vulture's Bilge Ebiri reviews 'The Adam Project,' the latest Netflix blockbuster from 'Free Guy' director Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds, co-starring Mark ...

When the two Adams meet, the older Adam assures us that the younger Adam is annoying as hell. And yet, the exact opposite seems to be true; the kid seems like a pretty average kid, while grown-up Adam is the irritating smart-ass. That is actually an interesting contrast between the two actors, and it could even be an interesting plot point in some future version of this movie that was put together with something resembling care. It’s all quite silly, but at least the latter parts of the film allow us to spend some time with Ruffalo, who brings the kind of emotional openness and engagement that Reynolds refuses to. Reynolds plays Adam Reed, whom we first see piloting some kind of futuristic spaceship in the year 2050, while nursing a wound in his stomach, right before he makes a time jump to the year 2022. And the strangest thing is that The Adam Project seems to know this.

Ryan Reynolds' movie 'The Adam Project' is inspired by his childhood imagination (unknown)

NPR's A Martinez talks to actor Ryan Reynolds, who stars in the new film — The Adam Project — about a time-traveling pilot on a quest to save the future.

And I - you know, at that time, I was, you know, I put off going to the doctor. And I just - and it was - you know, it was also oddly emotional at times. I produced "Deadpool 1," "Deadpool 2," "Free Guy" and "The Adam Project." So with that is a luxury to able to work with the people that you really, truly trust in the foxhole, so to speak. I still have it just because I thought it was so funny. But I waited a couple of years, went and got an X-ray. And I found out I'd broken a couple of vertebrae in my neck. And I'm really - I know I really hurt my neck when I did it. Do you still do a lot of them or most of them or all of them? REYNOLDS: Yeah. I mean, it's - I would much rather have a kind of persona take over than, you know, have to sort of suffer through any sort of social interaction alone, in the naked light of day. And I used to try and just make people laugh as much as I could so that they wouldn't get to know me. So I developed a bit of a silver tongue as a kid. I mean, is that a little window or mirror to you as a 12-year-old? MARTINEZ: That younger version of yourself, that's played by a young actor named Walker Scobell. And he really seemed - if I could imagine you, Ryan, as a 12-year-old, that would be him.

The Adam Project Ending and Time Travel Explained (unknown)

Netflix's The Adam Project whizzes through its exposition to crack on with more action and jokes, so we take a step back to figure out how any of this ...

Young Adam is excited to meet his buff older self, but is naturally very confused and inquisitive about how time travel works. He wants to know if Adam remembers everything that’s happening, since they’re the same person and all. In the future, Adam has shifted his anger and grief from his mother’s shoulders onto his dead dad’s legacy: it turns out daddy Louis (Mark Ruffalo) was the one who accidentally invented time travel in the first place, causing a chain reaction that led to a very bleak future for everyone, including Adam.

Netflix’s The Adam Project lets Ryan Reynolds do his thing (unknown)

Zoe Saldaña and Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds star in The Adam Project, a time-travel story about a man on an adventure with his younger self.

The form of therapy presented in The Adam Project is obviously impossible, and more than a little simplistic. But its exploration of the wounds of childhood comes from a more earnest place. (Netflix also trots out some of that Irishman technology to put Keener’s face on a body double in scenes where she interacts with her younger self.) And a romantic interlude between Garner and Ruffalo is a little too quippy for its own good. (The movie is full of “Okay, I guess” contrivances of this type.) So he breaks into the backyard of his 12-year-old self, a smaller, more asthmatic, but equally smart-mouthed version of Adam (Walker Scobell). When Levy and Reynolds — both co-producers on the film — play to their strengths, The Adam Project is zippy, agreeable sci-fi fun that produces a few good chuckles. Writer-director Shawn Levy has already collaborated with Reynolds (on 2021’s Free Guy) and shot eight episodes of Stranger Things, so combining the two is a logical next step.

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Film review: The Adam Project is riddled with plot holes but full of fun (Irish Examiner)

The Adam Project (12A) gleefully tears up the rule book, however, as it opens with Adam (Ryan Reynolds) hurtling back from the year 2050 in a stolen space- ...

And so the two Adams are whirled into a life-or-death adventure that is marvellous fun, and not least because Shawn Levy’s film seems determined to mention or allude to every big sci-fi film from the past five decades —, and are three that get a nod in the first 10 minutes alone. (12A) gleefully tears up the rule book, however, as it opens with Adam (Ryan Reynolds) hurtling back from the year 2050 in a stolen space-fighter and crashlanding in the back yard of his childhood home, where he is promptly discovered by his 12-year-old self (Walker Scobell).(12A) gleefully tears up the rule book, however, as it opens with Adam (Ryan Reynolds) hurtling back from the year 2050 in a stolen space-fighter and crashlanding in the back yard of his childhood home, where he is promptly discovered by his 12-year-old self (Walker Scobell). There’s no time to waste figuring out the potential consequences, though: Adam has returned to his childhood era to (a) thwart Maya Sorian (Catherine Keener), who is planning to steal ‘the most precious resource in the world — time’, and (b) save his future wife Laura (Zoe Saldana), who was recently killed on Sorian’s orders.

The Adam Project: Effective retro entertainment that comes back ... (The Irish Times)

Film review: Ryan Reynolds time-travel adventure gives all the good lines to the boys.

This is the kind of post-Goonies family-oriented schmaltz that plays very well on Netflix (see all of Stranger Things, a show sometimes directed by Levy) and not so well in cinemas. Say hello to Ryan Reynolds playing Adam, a wisecracking Ryan Reynolds type, who, early in the film, flies out of troubled 2050 and into 2022, where the younger Adam ( Walker Scobell, doing an excellent approximation of the older actor) is a wisecracking Ryan Reynolds type, still mourning the loss of his father and making life tricky for his long-suffering mother (Jennifer Garner). They bond. The two Adams soon jump toward 2018 to meet their still-living dad (Mark Ruffalo) and take on his nefarious partner (played by two versions of Catherine Keener, one of which works).