It was only last year that director Shawn Levy and Producer-Star Ryan Reynolds collaborated with Free Guy, Netflix's latest The Adam Project sees the two join forces again. Whereas the former was a mostly original, sometimes over the top yet really entertaining video game based sci-fi romp, this time is a fully original really entertaining yet largely forgettable sci-fi romp. The film opens like most sci-fi films - in space, Reynolds plays Adam a pilot who messes with time travel to fix something in the past. That bit isn't fully original - Terminator comes to mind or any other sci-fi that dabbles into time travel. He goes to the past to save his younger self played by Walker Scobell, who even throughout the film sounds like Reynolds, and even though the film is largely original as it deals with different elements of time, it's also largely forgettable. But Reynolds and his smaller much younger twin's quips help keep the film alive through it's 106 minute runtime. Albeit the film does suffer, with it's thin script, a forgettable villain and the innocuous and yet contagious Reynolds, can even be too much for the film to handle, a sort of too much Reynolds to handle. The action set-pieces are entertaining too, in fact that is where the film shines, the sparkly, through the wibble wobble time-wimey stuff Reynolds shines it's clear here that the cast and crew had a lot of fun making as the villain's crew are launched like lemmings through Star Wars like set-pieces.
Admittedly you'll watch this, you'll probably enjoy it and why wouldn't you? There's a lot to enjoy, The Adam Project is funny, fast-paced and quick on it's quips and whims, though it's a largely forgettable film and it suffers from too much Reynolds, it's a slickly entertaining - and occasionally moving sci-fi action romp. It's the kind of film where you shouldn't expect too much, much like Free Guy before it. With this you will enjoy it, but probably forget it after the credits roll. 3/5.
Admittedly you'll watch this, you'll probably enjoy it and why wouldn't you? There's a lot to enjoy, The Adam Project is funny, fast-paced and quick on it's quips and whims, though it's a largely forgettable film and it suffers from too much Reynolds, it's a slickly entertaining - and occasionally moving sci-fi action romp. It's the kind of film where you shouldn't expect too much, much like Free Guy before it. With this you will enjoy it, but probably forget it after the credits roll. 3/5.