“The Adam Project” review: Travel back in time with young self and save the world

Contains spoilers, please read after watching the movie.

“The Adam Project” is a sci-fi adventure film directed by Shawn Levy, starring Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, and Jennifer Garner. The plot tells that in the not-too-distant future, pilot Adam decides to travel back in time to save a world that is about to be destroyed. In the past, I didn’t expect that an accident happened on the way because of the villain’s blocking, and it was forced to land in 2022.

So when the original plan goes awry, Adam must work with his childhood self on a mission to save the future.

The story of “The Adam Project” takes place in 2050. Although it is only 30 years away from now, human technology at that time has been quite advanced. It can not only fly fast in space by driving a spacecraft, but also travel through time and space. A high-tech capability that goes back to the past to perform missions.

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Adam, the protagonist of “The Adam Project” played by Ryan Reynolds, is a 40-year-old pilot living in 2050. He disregarded the instructions of Maya, his superior, and flew the plane into space without permission. Although he was stopped by others, he was also shot by other planes. But when he was about to be shot down, Adam opened a wormhole channel that allows people to travel in time and space, and successfully escaped through time and space to the past.

2022 “The Adam Project” Little Adam, who was 12 years old at the time, was a smart middle school student, but only in his head.

In addition to suffering from asthma, petite body, impulsive personality, disregarding the blunt words of others in the subway, and making him often bullied by school bullies, after his father, whom he admired since childhood, died in a car accident, Adam’s originally happy life changed in an instant. It had an indelible impact and influence on him.

Even though it has been a year and a half since the accident, little Adam is still in deep pain and shadow. Not only has the intimacy between him and his mother become somewhat alienated, but he has also been temporarily suspended by the school because of a fight with others.

“The Adam Project”‘s angry mother told Adam to think about his future, because the future is coming, and she was right.

That night, my mother went out with her colleague Derek on a date. She tried to let go of the pain of losing her husband and wanted to move forward, but little Adam, the protagonist of “The Adam Project”, didn’t want to forget his father so soon, and the two had a little bit of trouble. Quarrel and friction, remembering his father, Adam can only pass the time with the video game he designed for himself, so as to forget the sadness that his father is no longer around.

At this time, there was a loud noise outside the house, and the power suddenly went out of their house. Little Adam ran out with the dog Hawking. Not only did he find the strange traces of time travel, but after he was alarmed that there was danger, he returned home and saw him in his father’s garage. To the injured adult Adam.

Although “The Adam Project” Little Adam feels weird, as a pilot, Big Adam is not only the idol of this kid, but also the true embodiment of his future.

Because Big Adam, played by Ryan Reynolds at the time, accidentally came to 2022 in a desperate situation, the two big Adams in “The Adam Project” must work together to repair the plane damaged by the crash and treat Big Adam. He was wounded by a gunshot wound to escape the pursuit of the troops sent by Chief Adam, and returned together to perform a “secret mission” in 2018 to save a key person.

The interesting thing about the movie “The Adam Project” is that the two people collided with many interesting interactive sparks in the process.

Although little Adam’s doubts about time travel, curiosity about his future life, and saying what he thinks in his heart makes Da Adam feel irritable and tired, but watching himself encounter difficulties when he was a child, from the relationship with his mother, When he was bullied by bullies, he couldn’t help but help, but even though he seemed mature on the surface, Adam himself had his own difficulties to overcome.

Not long ago, Laura, the local wife of “The Adam Project”, returned to 2018 to perform a certain task, and she never came back.

After all the relevant data had been tampered with by unknown persons, and it seemed that something was hidden, he decided to go back and find out in person and try to find the missing wife.

However, “The Adam Project” made people unexpectedly, when the big and small Adam was attacked by the pursuers in 2022, they met Laura who had been staying for the past 4 years because of the damage to the spaceship, and the three fought off the chase together. They also decided to go back to the past to set things right, stop the invention of time travel, and save the future that has become chaotic because of these technologies.

So “The Adam Project” focuses on the journey of Adam and Adam back together four years ago in 2018, to meet their father who invented time travel and was alive at the time. The father, played by Mark Ruffalo, is a physicist teaching at the university. Although the three of them met successfully, the reunion of father and son, which should have been quite warm and touching, did not go as smoothly as expected.

At first, my father thought that he should not communicate with the two of them and was unwilling to help them implement the plan because he thought it would mess up the flow of time, but then the plot of “The Adam Project” took a turn. The characters, instead of exploring the complex paradoxes and scientific rationales that make time travel confusing, focus on the characters themselves.

It not only makes the story simple, but also brings a lot of entertainment to the audience, and also deeply describes the emotional relationship between family and characters.

I like that “The Adam Project” not only contains interesting sci-fi settings and action scenes such as thrilling combat and aerial combat, but also has a plot design that allows Ryan Reynolds to tell meaningful themes in the hilarious slapstick.

Although the protagonist in the film has a mission to save the future world, under the premise that time travel can change the future, correcting the mistakes of the past means that many beautiful things in the future will not happen. How can they go about it? Make tradeoffs?

Because of the death of their father in a car accident, the family of “The Adam Project” has been in deep pain since then. Not only did the mother and son become estranged, but Adam’s performance in school and subsequent life development have become It’s a mess, and while Ryan Reynolds looks fine, he’s already scarred inside.

Therefore, behind the packaging of the superficial sci-fi comedy, the core of “The Adam Project” is still a warm and touching family movie.

Big Adam has been in deep pain for many years because of the loss of his father; the father blamed himself for not cherishing the time he spent with his family in the past because he could not take good care of his children; the little Adam lacked the emotional support he had always had. The mother, who always pretends to be nothing, feels incomprehensible; in order not to affect the child, the mother chooses to bear the pain alone.

“The Adam Project” ultimately allows this time travel to resolve each character’s psychological difficulties in a very gentle way.

Among them, in addition to the reunion between Adam and his mother by telling the correct way to get along with the child, let the mother put down the burden, and also heal the regret of not treating her mother well before, everyone in the ending of “The Adam Project” is also in this world After the disappearance of the technology of time travel, because of the invisible power brought by a family love, it has achieved a better self and moved towards a brighter future. To a certain extent, it can still bring warmth to people.

On the whole, “The Adam Project” is definitely a competent commercial entertainment film. The whole film travels through time and space. The middle-aged man returns to 30 years ago and performs tasks with himself as a child, and resolves them in the process. The theme of the heart knot that cannot be lifted for many years.

Although Ryan Reynolds is a little less comical this time, but with the combination of sci-fi settings and special effects action scenes, “The Adam Project” is still choreographed around family love, I believe it can be The audience is happy and satisfied with the happy ending.