The Adam Project Movie Review

The Adam Project Synopsis: A time-traveling pilot teams up with his younger self and his late father to come to terms with his past while saving the future.

The Good

The Adam Project is a lighthearted and entertaining film. Ryan Reynolds and Walker Scobell create an intriguing pairing. It's easy to see how one might transform into the other. They speak a lot, and Scobell performs an excellent imitation of Reynolds's sense of humor. I felt they were a great couple, and I enjoyed their chemistry. The Adam Project's concept and idea are fantastic. I enjoy time travel stories, and the film is a terrific sci-fi mash-up. The Adam Project is inspired by a variety of pop culture influences, including Star Wars, Looper, Avengers: Endgame, and others. If imitation is flattery, then The Adam Project's actions should make all of those film franchises blush. The narrative is very predictable, but the protagonists' personality and the storytelling make it all tolerable.

The Bad

The humor of Ryan Reynolds is an acquired taste. Beware if you don't enjoy Ryan Reynolds' ad-libs and his unique brand of observational humor. The film not only has a fair dosage of filthy comedy, but it also relies on it. This is not uncommon in a Deadpool film, where it can be difficult to distinguish where the character ends and the person begins. The Adam Project succumbs to Reynolds' appeal and slathers this crassness on thick. Walker Scobell's range is limited at the moment. Because of his incapacity to expand his emotions, the writer overcompensates with black humor. It's especially off-putting when Reynolds himself contributes to the dark comedy to compensate for Scobell's inexperience. It's obvious.

Overall

The Adam Project is a lighthearted film that made me cry. I would absolutely suggest this film, and I want to see it again at some time. This film, in my opinion, could have utilized more variety. With the exception of the few sequences with Zoe Saldana, the film appeared to be diverse.

The presence of sadness and how it is dealt with throughout the picture. Despite its lighter tone, the film never deviates too far into serious ground. Again, this is one of the features that emphasizes the film's one-dimensionality. Shaun Levy, who directed 2021's Free Guy (also starring Reynolds), appears to struggle with striking a balance between the human and more magical elements. Something he hasn't had a problem with in prior films like Night at the Museum, but perhaps wasn't allowed enough leeway here to really pull off. Visually, the CGI (apart from the weird Keener face) and locales seem fine, thanks to some cunning budget ‘massaging,' I believe. The film's size appears to be quite small due to the extensive utilization of only a few locales. The notion is hampered by the fact that we never see the future (apart from a brief prologue) or any aspect of elder Adam's existence beyond his young self. The future weaponry are impressive in terms of design and spectacle, but not so much in terms of outfits, with elder Adam's flight suit resembling a baggy boiler suit.

Conventional weaponry is also employed in one of the battle scenes, which appears to be a squandered opportunity to better immerse you in the sci-fi environment. Another strange event that has much too much influence on the storyline is the fragile space jet 'key fob,' which only functions in extremely complicated settings (the user possessing healthy DNA).