Adam Project

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.

Ryan Reynolds' life shares some very intentional parallels with The Adam Project's storyline, particularly a personal moment in the film.

According to the director, their goal was to "make a time travel movie that felt really grounded and foregrounded character and fun and adventure and heart that didn’t get too mired in the rules." In addition to Reynolds, The Adam Project stars Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana, Walker Scobell, Catherine Keener, and Alex Mallari Jr. Not only did Ryan Reynolds draw inspiration from classic '80s films like E. T and The Goonies for theThe Adam Project, but he also borrowed from personal experience.

Many time travel movies have come and gone, each experimenting with plot, background, characters, and most importantly the science of time travel. But the ones ...

Back to the Future is nothing like the current generation of time travel movies. Back to the Future is one of the greatest time travel movies ever made. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, Synchronic explores the concept of time travel in a never-seen-before package. However, at the same time, there’s some understated philosophy of life that also makes the story a little melancholic. 12 Monkeys shares very little similarity with the works of The Adam Project, except for the fact that someone from the future goes back to the past to save the world. The movie stars John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke in main roles. Now, this is a time travel story that is fun, exciting, and very Bill Murray. Groundhog Day makes you look at life differently, we promise. This is one of those sci-fi movies that deal with moral dilemmas and does that through grungy action sequences and a neo-noir-like premise. During one of his assignments, Joe finds out that his future self is also a target for the mob. If you love art, literature, and sci-fi, not necessarily in the same breath, then this is a movie for you. That being said, in the years between Back to the Future and The Adam Project, filmmakers have dished out a whole bunch of inventive, touching, and unforgettable time travel stories. But the ones who stay in our memories and go down in history as the most iconic, are the ones that have perfectly used all the elements that it takes to make an incredible story.

The Adam Project is the top movie on Netflix, and Ryan Reynolds' first blockbuster for them that's scoring well with critics.

The Adam Project is starting out very strong, debuting instantly at #1 on the service. Instead, it was Red Notice that was much more successful and became a franchise instead, with another installment on the way. If a big new movie starring Ryan Reynolds on Netflix is starting to feel familiar, that’s because the service has invested in Reynolds in a big way.

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.

Understand: In terms of moviemaking, no genre is redefined, here; no game gets changed. But the Netflix film is a relatively streamlined affair that moves at a ...

But The Adam Project, as pleasantly slight as it is, gestures toward a career trajectory the actor might enjoy in the years to come, after that jawline softens, that tight bod inevitably enDaddens itself, and his characteristic brio settles into the less effortful confidence of middle-age. It's also possible that the performance works because so much of it exists in the interplay between the two Adams — Reynolds and Scobell. In their many scenes together, Reynolds allows his familiar, keyed-up, outward persona to recede, in order to really listen to the other, younger actor, who doesn't so much steal focus as confidently accept it. Maybe it's that the script gives him more moments to breathe as an actor, as in an emotional scene he shares with Garner in a bar. He's funny in the way he usually is, he's handsome and buff and charismatic as ever. But there's a difference between choosing roles suited to your gifts and using your gifts to force roles into suiting yourself. You knew that this was just a cruel joke that he and his friends were pulling, and you had just a scosh too much self-respect to ever actually make that phone call, yet it's true that the first time you read his note, you flushed with a stupid kind of excitement, imagining for one magical instant that you'd somehow fundamentally misread the previous four miserable years of high school and okay I now realize what I'm describing may have been something less than a universal experience and more of a Me Thing so uh let me get back on track and refocus on my original thesis. No, he was the other kind of jock, the kind that wasn't looking for a career in the NFL, but only trying to gain some leadership experience and expand his extracurriculars. He went out of his way to ask to sign your yearbook at graduation, though you'd never talked to each other; when you read it later, you found that he'd left his number and invited you over to his house to swim at his pool over the summer. Again and again, he's chosen roles that highlight what comes easiest to him: Witty banter, mischievous humor, ingratiating charm. He carried himself with a confidence that he always worried might get mistaken for cockiness or swagger, so he took pains to keep in check. He was on a first-name basis with the custodian, with whom he talked car-racing; the lunch-servers snuck him extra tater tots. And why The Adam Project feels like a small but significant — and possibly even hopeful — departure for him.