The Adam Project is released on Netflix on Friday March 11, 2022
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.
Review
After being stuck in development hell for around a decade now with Tom Cruise originally attached to star, The Adam Project is finally arriving, now as a Netflix Original with Ryan Reynolds playing the titular Adam (well, playing one of them at least).
Time travelling pilot Adam Reed (Reynolds) arrives in 2022 where he meets his younger 12-year-old self and the two have to team up and go on a mission to save the future. It sounds like a good old-fashioned classic family friendly action adventure film. And it sounds like that because that’s exactly what it is. The Adam Project is a downright good time and you can’t help but enjoy it.
Even if Ryan Reynolds plays the exact same character in every single one of his film, his charm and charisma is still exactly what a film needs to inject humour and fun to it. It feels like the sort of film that if it was released in a cinema in the summer sometime in the 80s, it’d be considered a classic up there with E.T. or The Goonies. But because it’s being released straight onto Netflix the week after The Batman ,and the fact that Netflix have hardly marketed it to the point that no one really knows it’s coming out, sadly it’ll end up as yet another forgotten Netflix film.
Not only does Reynolds shine as his usual funny self, but Walker Scobell who plays a younger version of Adam manages to match his energy and prove a worthy 12-year-old version of Ryan Reynoldsm, which is no easy task. Rounding out the film’s cast is Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana and Catherine Keener who all help to make the film stand out to the point that this really feels like a big summer blockbuster and it’s a shame that it’s been left to be released on Netflix on an uneventful weekend in March.
If last year’s Free Guy, or Stranger Things or any of the Night at the Museum, didn’t already convince you, director Shawn Levy really knows how to make something fun and entertaining. There’s enough comedy in The Adam Project, enough futuristic tech and plenty of action in it that it’s a delight to watch.
On top of all this, the film manages to deliver with the emotion too. As well as being a science-fiction action adventure film, it’s also much deeper than that and bears with it a lot of heart. Adam’s father died when he was a young boy and through the time travel, Adam manages to make peace with his own history. He makes peace with himself, his mother and even his father and the way that the film explores grief and family relationships is really powerful, especially since this isn’t the sort of film you’d expect to explore these sorts of topics.
Verdict
The Adam Project is sure to be a real crowd-pleaser with audiences. It’s a blast, with lots of laughs, action, as well as spectacle. It’s just a shame that we have to watch it on Netflix and not in a packed cinema on a nice summer’s afternoon. This really is a summer blockbuster popcorn flick. Just in March, and on Netflix.
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