Netflix’s ‘The Adam Project’ Is A Perfectly Good Movie I Will Never Think About Again

I found myself watching The Adam Project, a new science fiction movie starring Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo and others, after it was on the top of the Top 10 charts for a few days. There are some mildspoilers following.

Walker Scobell, a kid who is very good at playing a young Ryan Reynolds, plays the younger version of Reynolds in the movie. The two are trying to save their father's invention of time-travel, which has been corrupted by his old business partner, and also prevent his wife from going missing, which has led to a future where time-travel is banned, as you might expect.

Reynolds interacting with his younger self totally destroy the space-time continuum is one of the common time travel questions brought up in the movie. Reynolds is content to say that anything can happen during a time travel run, and it won't be until you return to your original timeline that things will solidify. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's also the type of movie where it doesn't matter very much.

The Adam Project works because Ryan Reynolds is always charming, even if he is playing different roles in movies like this. He has a very good dynamic with Scobell as his younger self, and also with his father when he finally appears as the pair's father. I found the movie to be pretty strange, because of the under use of ZOE SAdana.

There is some decent action here. The disintegration effect when you kill someone who has been time traveling is cool, but they never explain why Ryan Reynolds has a lightsaber. The action on the ground is better than the time jet dogfighting.

The Adam Project is a good diversion for a weekday evening, but not a genre classic. The Adam Project and Red Notice are two movies that are on the top of the charts, yet feel like they lack the cultural impact or staying power that other movies have. The Adam Project feels like a movie that 40 million people will watch, but no one will ever talk about it again, until The Adam Project 2 comes out, greenlit after so many viewers for the first. It feels like these movies work better for the company than the ones they work for on the internet.

I kind of doubt that The Adam Project will last. I will recommend it, as I view movies as essentially two episodes of a show put together, but theseNetflix originals occupy a strange space these days.

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The Herokiller series and The Earthborn trilogy are my sci-fi novels.