When he sets that aside in the second half, the science-fiction/fantasy film improves.
What follows is a fairly confused story. Big Adam is on a time-traveling mission to destroy the source of time travel, to kill that technology in the crib. To do so, he needs to go back to 2018, but instead he has landed in 2022. Big Adam has other things he wants to do, as well, such as to reunite with his wife and meet his long-lost father, a scientist played by Mark Ruffalo.
“The Adam Project” is so convoluted that at least twice the movie grinds to a stop as various characters explain to each other - for our benefit - what’s going on. It’s hard to follow, but the idea seems to be that time has a main flow, and then there are tributaries, where time and events go in the wrong directions. The two Adams are apparently off on a tributary, which supposedly explains how they can be together at the same time. Or something like that.
Fortunately, it’s not important to understand what’s going on. “The Adam Project” may be convoluted, but it’sconvoluted. It makes a few feints in the direction of making sense and then keeps sending in Catherine Keener, as the villain from the future, on a mission to kill Big Adam. Each time, the screen suddenly looks like a video game, as the soundtrack blasts boomer favorites, such as Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times, Bad Times” and Boston’s “Foreplay/Longtime.
Yet a few things make “The Adam Project” a little better than bearable. In the second half of the movie, Reynolds follows Ruffalo’s lead, and the funny thing about Ruffalo’s performance is that it’s not funny at all. No one seems to have told him that he wasn’t in a serious drama. Thus, some of the inherent emotional power of the time travel concept gets tapped, and the movie actually gets better.mlasalle@sfchronicle.
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