Project Almanac Fact Box:
Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Thriller
Running Time: 106 min (1 hr 46 min)
Starring: Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D'Elia and Gary Weeks
Summary: The teenage son of a time-machine-designing genius and his friends build it and travel back in time for their advantages, without thinking about the repercussions.
Rating: PG-13
Release Date(s): January 30, 2015
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2436386/
Director: Dean Israelite (first film)
Writers: Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan (also both wrote the upcoming Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension)
Brief Plot Overview: Ben Raskins (Gary Weeks) was a genius who's designed a time machine and hidden it in a hole in his basement floor. Unfortunately, he dies in a car crash on his son, David's, 7th birthday. David, now a teenager (Jonny Weston), is not a genius, but he's very smart and after showing off an experiment with a hand-censoring, hand-controlled drone, is accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), but his mom (Amy Lendecker) can't afford it, and plans to sell the house in order for it to happen. Troubled by this, David and his sister Christina (Virginia Gardner) go through their father's belongings in their attic in hopes for something to sell to afford the scholarship and find one of their dad's old video cameras. They watch the recording on there, which is of David's 7th birthday, but discover that they see a teenage David in a reflection in the background. David gets his friends Adam (Allen Evangelista) and Quinn (Sam Lerner) to come over and see. Searching in the basement, they discover Ben's secret time machine project for the U.S. Military called "Project Almanac" that they discover is for a time machine. They all agree to start building the machine, continuing their dad's dreams, and after lots of construction and lots of attempts to get it started, with the help of David's crush, Jessie's (Sofia Black D'Elia) Prius's battery for power using jumper cables (who ends up reluctantly joining their group), they go back in time. But what a show they're in for....What I Liked: It was an entertaining movie, I'll give 'em that. Being a found footage film, we got to live the adventure through the characters because it felt more closer and realistic (though far from it). Also, it was impressively well-made, but that didn't exactly surprise me, because as much hate Michael Bay receives in a day, he knows how to make a cool-looking movie. And this was a pretty cool movie. Just as a movie, it's so-so.
What I Disliked: Many parts of the movie were pretty dumb, especially the romance between David and Jessie and the random Lollapalooza scenes, as well as many parts not making much sense, seeming kind of pointless, and kind of boring. I'm not going to get too involved within it, in order to avoid spoilers, but when you watch the movie, you'll get those same feelings about the movie as well. But I'll cut the movie some slack, for it is a Michael Bay movie and I knew it was a Michael Bay movie paying at the door and walking in the theater, and it still was entertaining and fun with some good characters.
Conclusion: Far from the most realistic, most original, best movie ever and with several notable flaws, it's still one heck of a ride.
Recommend to: Teens
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