The Adam Project
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After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
What critics thought
A mixed-to-middling reception greeted this time-travel adventure: critics who liked it found it a breezy, nostalgic crowd-pleaser elevated by Ryan Reynolds and young Walker Scobell's chemistry, while detractors felt it leaned too heavily on familiar '80s sci-fi touchstones without adding much of its own. The gap between the enthusiastic minority and the lukewarm majority is wider than its watchable surface suggests.
“The movie is a total trifle, but it's often a diverting one — a wide-eyed sci-fi adventure with a screwball buoyancy.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast & Crew
Shawn LevyDirector
Ryan ReynoldsBig Adam
Walker ScobellYoung Adam
Mark RuffaloLouis Reed
Jennifer GarnerEllie Reed
Zoe SaldañaLaura
Catherine KeenerMaya Sorian
Alex Mallari Jr.Christos
Braxton BjerkenRay
Kasra WongChuck
Lucie GuestYoung Sorian Body Double
Donald SalesPaul the Bartender
Esther Ming LiSophie
Rob SimonsenComposer
Jennifer FlackettWriter
Mark LevinWriter
T.S. NowlinWriter
Jonathan TropperWriter
Tobias A. SchliesslerCinematographyThe Adam Project
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
What critics thought
A mixed-to-middling reception greeted this time-travel adventure: critics who liked it found it a breezy, nostalgic crowd-pleaser elevated by Ryan Reynolds and young Walker Scobell's chemistry, while detractors felt it leaned too heavily on familiar '80s sci-fi touchstones without adding much of its own. The gap between the enthusiastic minority and the lukewarm majority is wider than its watchable surface suggests.
“The movie is a total trifle, but it's often a diverting one — a wide-eyed sci-fi adventure with a screwball buoyancy.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast & Crew
Shawn LevyDirectorRyan ReynoldsBig AdamWalker ScobellYoung AdamMark RuffaloLouis ReedJennifer GarnerEllie ReedZoe SaldañaLauraCatherine KeenerMaya SorianAlex Mallari Jr.ChristosBraxton BjerkenRayKasra WongChuckLucie GuestYoung Sorian Body DoubleDonald SalesPaul the BartenderEsther Ming LiSophieRob SimonsenComposerJennifer FlackettWriterMark LevinWriterT.S. NowlinWriterJonathan TropperWriterTobias A. SchliesslerCinematographyStream