THE ADAM PROJECT MOVIE REVIEW

After succeeding in the box office with Free Guy, Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy have teamed up again to give us The Adam Project on Netflix. Adam Reed, age 12, is bullied at school and doing his best to survive with his single mother (Jennifer Garner) as they are grieving the sudden death of Adam’s father (Mark Ruffalo) a year earlier. Adam walks into his garage one night to find a wounded pilot hiding there. This mysterious pilot turns out to be the older version of himself from the future, where time travel is in its infancy. He has risked everything to come back in time on a secret mission. Together they must embark on an adventure to save the world. Adding to the challenge of the mission, the two Adams discover they really don’t like each other very much, due in large part to Walker Scobell (in his cinematic debut) doing a spot-on young Ryan Reynolds impression, throwing all the quips and snark back into Deadpool’s handsome, chiseled face. If they’re going to save the world, they’re first going to have to figure out how to get along. This leaves Rae, Frank, Dogget, and T.C. wondering if they would be able to put up with their own 12-year-old selves, while also predicting Dogget’s likely future as a warlord of the apocalyptic Texas landscape.

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DIRECTED BY: Shawn Levy

STARRING: Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, Zoe Saldaña, Alex Mallari Jr., Walker Scobell

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)

T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.

 

 

Lyrae Anderson (Screener Squad)

You can call me Rae. You can also call me a film lover. I’ll watch it all — small screen; big screen, and everything in between. I have attended and worked for Fantastic Fest and South by Southwest for many years. I married a film geek as well. While we don’t agree on everything, we agree on our love of movies.

 

 

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.