The Adam Project is a time travel action movie about Adam(Ryan Reynolds) who flees 2050 to go back to the past, find his lost love Laura(Zoe Saldaña), and thwart Maya(Catherine Keener) a corporate titan in control of time travel and who has used it to consolidate power. He crashes in 2022 and connects with his younger self Adam(Walker Scobell) who he needs in order to repair his ship.
Reynolds plays his role a bit more straight and jaded, a nice departure for him, and its his counterpart Scobell who gets more of the wise-cracking humor. Scobell does a suprisngly effective psuedo-Reynolds impression and the two have a nice, easy chemistry. Keener is always a joy to see but doesn't get a ton to do as the heavy. Saldaña, also just a pleasure to have onscreen, has, in essense, an extended cameo but makes the most of it with some kick ass action. Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo round out the cast as Adam's parents, each bringing some necessary emotion and grounding the narrative to balance the more heightened genre elements. No one is being asked to do anything particularly challenging but it all works.
Visually(and tonally) a bit more somber than director Shawn Levy previous Free Guy, it has a serious edge but doesn't fall into doom and gloom. The action sequences are well choregraphed, there's enough of them to keep the momentum going, the CGI is if not seamless than judicious, the story has heart, if ultimately a riff/amalgam of things we've seen before. But it doesn't have any pretentions beyond that. It's trying to be a fun, propulsive blockbuster with an effective familial subplot, and it succeeds.
Straight up, uncomplicated, entertainment.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
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