Ryan Reynolds' runaway player with Sean Levy was last year's highest-grossing Hollywood original film, and this time the two collaborated on "Project Adam" released on Netflix, which became another star-studded blockbuster on Netflix.
It's not hard to imagine breaking the Netflix attendance record again.
Therefore, before the release on March 11, many viewers were highly anticipated.
But the bad news is that the film does not lead to the "feat" of "Runaway Player" to praise on one side.
On a certain valve, the rating was 6.4, and only 6.4% of people gave it a five-star positive rating.
On Rotten Tomatoes, 69% of the more than 1200 reviews were positive, with a rating of 6.2.
But the film scored a high score of 9 out of 10 on the official IGN website, and reviewers considered The Adam Project to be a wonderfully socialist family movie that captured the epic and interesting aspects of 80s science fiction!
The evaluation of this is mixed, so here is a friendly reminder, if you want to fully experience, do not watch the movie for the sake of rating, you may wish to do the evaluation after watching it yourself.
Under the "guise" of science fiction films, this is a science fiction film that makes people cry.
"Project Adam" tells the story of a man who travels back in time for his father, asks for help from his 12-year-old self, and cooperates with him on an adventure.
In recent years, Hollywood fans have seen too many ultra-rigorous space-time works such as "Darkness" and "Rocky", and "Adam's Plan" is like Paramount's "Tomorrow's War" last year, which basically includes the popular time and space themes.
Watching the first half of "The Adam Project" at first may make you think that the story is too dramatic, but the whole film is not as over-crotched as "Tomorrow's War", the advanced concept of parallel time and space, and it is also the same Ryan Reynolds-style self-deprecation, jumping out of the four walls with a single sentence of dialogue, erasing these annoying time-space throbbing theories.
On the contrary, "Adam's Plan" uses this "time and space" framework, in addition to the action-adventure elements, but it is to use "crossing" to talk about a touching family intention, and the ending is a little touching.
The "Adam Project" curtain action scenes are also pleasing to the eye, and Netflix's ambition to make big-budget movies is gradually successful.
Several fights and chases are really no different from blockbusters released in theaters.
Director Sean Levy's large number of Easter eggs on pop subculture, the witty dialogue between the two "I's", also have the consistent shadow under his guide.
However, as a "Netflix movie" with full publicity and large sums of money in the early stage, this movie is still difficult to look as good as a Hollywood cinema movie.
The specific reason is that the rhythm control of "Adam's Plan" is general, the first half of the topic is boring, many detail lines are not well explained, whether the love line and mother-child love are relatively weak; even if you want to let go of the complex concept of "time travel", see too many ultra-rigorous works such as "Dark", the last paragraph of the space-time theory is discussed so seriously, and the treatment of the ending is slightly discouraged.
Perhaps this is also a two-sided blade, after watching "The Adam Project", it feels as if it has become an IP that extends the worldview without ambition. Maybe Shaun Levy was "lacking". I can only think of the benefits.
The plot of "The Adam Project" is inevitably simple and straightforward for a science fiction film.
But either way, Project Adam is still the first blockbuster Netflix has pushed this year.
There are also Ryan Reynolds, Walker Scobel, Mark Rufro, Jennifer Garner and other superstars (coincidentally, all four are, or have been Marvel superheroes), plus this time-travel adventure story, which is completely the theme of entertainment blockbuster overlords.
"Adam's Plan" has both large-scale chase explosions, intense air combat and flying cars, as well as dense hand-to-hand combat and tricky action scenes.
Re-show Xiao Director's creative fantasies in science fiction movies such as "Out of Control Player" and "Iron Armor Steel Fist", the big scene is exciting and dazzling, and it is more like it should be watched in the theater, rather than being born online. In terms of Netflix production, "Adam Project" is indeed more entertaining than previous blockbusters.
In recent years, we have seen too many very logical "space-time films", or countless parallel time-space developed by Marvel, or time-space travel must be carefully and flawless, and everything must be reasonable and reasonable.
For this reason, I suggest that you must be mentally prepared here. But don't abandon a certain valve with a rating of 6.4...
"Adam's Project" is only less than two hours long, of course, can not completely come up with a detailed and rigorous story, extremely much like the film's self-deprecation, like the Terminator, "Back to the Future Trilogy" and other simple structures.
However, even if "The Adam Project" is a science fiction full of stories, its focus is still to write a story of growth and family affection, which makes the film not simply entertaining.
The future self and the past self to work hand in hand, but to rely on the past self to explain, the original growth has forced themselves to forget many past things, including beautiful things; life is no longer bitter, the best childhood memories, those simple and carefree days, should still be the best time in life, should not be forgotten, it is better to find a chance to reminisce.
And as a science fiction film, I can feel these things, is it a bit "out of place"!
Director Sean Levy can indeed grasp these details, and I use "a family film in the guise of science fiction" to describe "The Adam Project", which is very accurate.
A piece of father-son love in the movie is also particularly touching, no matter what happens in that time and space, your future is my future, and the family affection has continued; even if the past may not be able to change, love will continue forever, and it has become the most touching chapter of the whole film, and it is also the love flavor that the director has always seen in his works, and the theme of time travel to package this theme is also seen.
The so-called "insider lookout", if you want to make a movie full of science fiction, I believe that Director Xiao is OK, but adding such a deep plot to the movie is indeed more elaborate than the previous work "Out of Control Player".
So in summary, if you don't think deeply, "Adam Project" is undoubtedly another Netflix entertainment "cool film" after South Korea's "Pirate 2: Ghost Flag", but if you seriously study the plot, "Adam Project" still has too many unclear plots.
This is a very regrettable thing.
The first is the "space-time paradox", even if it is not as chaotic as "Tomorrow's War", the interpretation of multiple time and space is still one-sided; there is both a "fixed space-time" setting and the game rule of "can not contact with the people of the past, otherwise it will affect the fate of the world", and then it seems to be completely abandoned; thinking that the ending can have a surprising twist, it is so flat and straightforward, like an anti-climax.
Under the limitation of the length of the film, the "plan" of "Adam's Plan" is not clearly explained, no matter what happens in the future, even the whole "back to the past" action is not clearly explained, so that the behavior of the villain is also lightly taken, reduced to a film with empty concepts, and the solidity of the story still needs to be improved.
It can only be said that a father-son relationship is the surprise of the whole film, and the mother-child love and love line are only lightly brought over, and how important it is to talk about the matter in the film also makes the lengthy layout at the beginning of the film seem redundant. It is not known whether this is the impact of Netflix executives involved in the box office, this kind of "Netflix big movie" always has these water over the duck back problem, there is a good concept in front of it, it is always difficult to stretch.
But if it can be released in theaters, I believe the evaluation will be higher.
All in all, as Netflix's most powerful recent film, you choose to stay at home you believe that "Adam Project" will be eye-twice no matter what, if the above shortcomings can be accepted, then the entertainment of this film is indeed rich enough, the process is intense and exciting, the action scene is pleasing to the eye, Ryan Reynolds's star flavor is still the selling point, a father-son relationship and "know yourself" journey, but also a big surprise.
However, when we (especially in recent years) watch too many time and space films, "Adam Project" is inevitably heavy and heavy, constructing a fun worldview and concept but unable to extend, typically after a big scene, it ends, and it does bring a lot of disappointment after watching it!
The article ends with Ryan Reynolds.
He is 46 years old this year, still alive and well, and playing treasure is "proficient in everything". He and the child star Walker Scobel, born in 1997, sparked a lot of sparks in the play, and the chemistry was also excellent. It is hard to imagine that this young actor is actually playing the leading role for the first time, and his acting skills are very good.
Ryan Reynolds re-played the role of a little this time, fighting with his past self, still writing pearls, driving a lot of laughter.
Perhaps, Ryan Reynolds did not want to play the comedy role of such a small person again, and the second half erased the funny image and seriously played a heroic role, but let him not be in the shape of recent works.
Sean Levy, as he did in his previous routines, is full of self-deprecating and subcultural Easter eggs, equally entertaining, and his signature funny satire has not yet reached the point of disappointment.
It is rumored that the film was prepared in 2012, and tom Cruise, who was originally directed by Shaw, was delayed due to financial problems, until Netflix took over, and it was replaced by Ryan Reynolds.
So you might as well watch it as a popcorn movie, I believe there will be additional gains after watching it.
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