The Adam Project (2022)
The Adam Project (2022) HD Tamil dubbed Hollywood movie
Cast[edit]
- Ryan Reynolds as Adam Reed, a time pilot in a dystopian 2050 who risks his life to try and uncover the truth behind his wife's disappearance.
- Walker Scobell as young Adam Reed, a bullied 6th grader in 2022 who suffers from asthma.
- Mark Ruffalo as Louis Reed, Adam's father and a brilliant quantum physicist who wrote the algorithm necessary for controlled time travel. Reed died sometime in 2021 in a car accident, and Adam still suffers from depression over it.
- Jennifer Garner as Ellie Reed, Adam's mother. Garner also portrays her younger self in 2018.
- Catherine Keener as Maya Sorian, a businesswoman who funded Louis' research and later took advantage of his death to monopolize it for her own benefit and create a future where she is the most powerful woman in the world.
- Keener also portrays her younger self through de-aging, with Lucie Guest as her body double.
- Zoe Saldaña as Laura Shane, Adam's wife and a fellow time pilot left stranded in 2018 after a failed attempt on her life. Saldaña also portrays her alternate version in the changed timeline.
- Alex Mallari Jr. as Christos, Adam and Laura's former colleague, now a ruthless security enforcer employed by Sorian.
Production[edit]
The project, a spec script written by T.S. Nowlin, was initially announced as Our Name Is Adam in October 2012. Paramount Pictures became interested in acquiring the film, and Tom Cruise was attached to star.[2][3]
The film was revived in July 2020 when it moved to Netflix, with Shawn Levy as director and Ryan Reynolds set to star after previously collaborating on Free Guy (2021), while the latest draft of the script was written by Jonathan Tropper, from previous drafts by Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin.[4] In November, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana, Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener, Alex Mallari Jr. and Walker Scobell were added to the cast.[5][6]
Filming commenced in November 2020 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[6] Filming officially wrapped in March 2021.[7]
Rob Simonsen composed the score.[8] A track from the film titled "The Adam Project" was released as a single on March 3, 2022.[9]
Release[edit]
The film was digitally released on March 11, 2022, on Netflix. It totaled 3 million viewers over its debut weekend.[10]
Reception[edit]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 68% of 205 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's consensus reads, "You've seen Ryan Reynolds do this sort of thing before, but The Adam Project offers slickly entertaining – and occasionally even moving – sci-fi action."[11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 55 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[12]
Ryan Leston of IGN gave it 9 out of 10 and called it a mash-up of Back to the Future and The Last Starfighter. He praised Reynolds for his performance and Scobell for his debut performance.[13] Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote: "The movie is a total trifle, but it’s often a diverting one — a wide-eyed sci-fi adventure with a screwball buoyancy."[14]
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