Good science fiction shouldn’t be a sobfest.
Ryan Reynolds vehicle on NetflixYou yawn through the uninspired action sequences — just 30 years from now we apparently will wield cheap-looking lightsaber rip-offs — and then are nauseated by over-dramatic exchanges such as this:Character 1: “But what about your future?”The tip-off that “Adam Project,” which at one point was set to star Tom Cruise, would end up as suburban tweedom with spaceships is the casting of wholesome Jennifer Garner as the mom of 12-year-old Adam .
He’s been bullied at school since his physics professor dad died, and his mom is beginning to date again. One night when Adam is home alone, a stranger shows up in the backyard shed, and we quickly learn that the intruder is Big Adam from three decades down the line.Letting us know Big Adam’s identity from the onset is a huge mistake because it gives the pair nowhere to go. It’s like if Darth Vader dropped “I am your father” in the first scene of “Star Wars.
Big Adam’s goal was to hop back to 2018 to destroy time travel and prevent the death of his wife at the hands of Maya, an anodyne villain played by Catherine Keener. But he overshoots and lands in 2022. Big Adam’s dad , it turns out, is the guy who invented the technology. Together, the Adams venture four years in the past.Who this movie is for, I couldn’t tell ya. It’s safe and condescending enough for little ones.
” and produces another youthful sci-fi adventure on Netflix, “Stranger Things.” But “Adam Project” is a return to his less illustrious days of schlock andTo partly quote Dr. Emmett Brown, Levy needs to go back … to the drawing board!
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