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Follow us today to a 2022 American science-fiction action film called: The Adam Project.
Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
Time travel exists - we just don’t know it yet.
In the year 2050, Adam - a time pilot - manages to steal a time jet.
He escapes through a wormhole to the past.
Twenty eight years earlier and Adam is still only 12 years old.
He is at school being chased by some bad friends.
They manage to catch him and his sarcastic comments earn him a punch in the stomach.
Adam’s mum comes to the school to see the principal but he is suspended for fighting.
We learn that it is a year and a half since his father died.
His mum is worried that she will lose her job because she keeps having to leave work
to deal with him.
Later that evening, she goes out on a date while Adam stays home playing video games.
Suddenly, the power goes out and the dog starts barking outside.
Adam goes to investigate and follows the dog into the forest - discovering the burning
remains of trees.
He races back to the house but hears a noise in the garage and cautiously enters.
Sitting on the floor is the older Adam from the future.
He is injured but asks his younger self how old he is.
When he discovers that he is only twelve, he seems surprised.
Older Adam tries to sort out his wounds and young Adam realizes that he has been shot.
Young Adam asks questions but old Adam continually says that things are classified.
Eventually young Adam realizes who he is.
They go back out to the forest and old Adam reveals that he was aiming for 2018.
He tries to get back into his Time Jet but as it is coded to his DNA and he is injured,
it won’t allow him access.
However, young Adam can and a platform shuttle carries them into the jet.
They both sit down and before young Adam can start pushing buttons, old Adam tells him
that if the controls are operated then “they” will be able to find him.
“They” of course are classified.
Old Adam starts the self repair on the ship while young Adam questions him about whether
he remembers being here in the past.
Old Adam tells him that their memories will reconcile when he returns and accuses his
younger self of watching too many movies when he mentions the multiverse. Old Adam hides
in the garage to recuperate and sends young Adam away before his mother gets home.
Old Adam looks at a picture of a woman.
Later, when Adam’s mum returns home, young Adam is his usual sarcastic self and his mum
accuses him of being a jerk.
From the garage, old Adam is watching his mum despondently.
The next day, young Adam goes to check on his older self after his mum leaves for work.
He asks a lot of awkward questions before old Adam decides to go to the pharmacy. Old
Adam borrows some of his dad’s old clothes in the closet and scolds his younger self
for the way he treats his mother.
They head to town together and while old Adam goes into the pharmacy, young Adam encounters
his bad schoolmates again.
Old Adam intercepts and encourages young Adam to fight back.
It doesn’t work and he runs away so old Adam threatens the kids and they run away.
Back in the garage, young Adam is going through old Adam’s things.
Old Adam explains that he had to get beaten up as he won't become him otherwise.
Young Adam finds the picture and is told that it is Adam’s wife - Laura - but she is dead.
At a bar, Old Adam sees his mum chatting with the bartender about her son.
She thinks she's doing something wrong and Adam tries to reassure her that she is doing
fine.
She opens up to him and they have a heartfelt conversation.
She recognises her husband's clothes and runs after him as he leaves but he has vanished.
Another time jet appears and some troops are dispatched to find Adam.
The two Adams are eating and discussing Laura.
She had an accident, despite being an excellent pilot so he was planning to go to 2018 to
find out what actually happened.
He mentions that maybe she saw something that Sorian didn't want her to see.
Maya Sorian was their Dad’s partner who got rich off all the tech after he died and
has exclusive control over Time.
It appears that his Dad invented time travel.
He invented a magnetic particle accelerator that he called The Adam Project.
Old Adam believes that Sorian had Laura killed and that is why he is going back to 2018.
Suddenly, the dog becomes restless and Adam instructs his younger self to grab a bag and
get ready to run.
The troops start to appear as they escape.
Old Adam fights them off using a lightsaber.
Suddenly, the time jet appears carrying Sorian.
Christos - her head of security - approaches them.
Sorian tries to tell Adam to come home now and accuses him of risking his younger self
over the delusion that she killed Laura.
Adam and Christos fight but suddenly the time jet is shot at.
Laura runs towards them and together they dispatch the remainder of the troops.
The time jet disappears and Laura tells them to come with her.
They jump into a truck and drive away whilst pursued by the jet into the forest.
Troops are deployed on hoverboards who follow them through the trees but Adam manages to
destroy them.
After their escape, Laura explains that she noticed something odd in the logs - a time
jet returning from 2018 despite no-one ever flying to 2018.
Young Adam seems to understand that the future that the jet returned to was a different one
from which it left.
In a cabin, Laura explains that it was Sorian that was in the jet from 2018.
In that year, The Adam Project went online.
Laura believes that Sorian went back to give herself whatever future intelligence she needed
to amass her fortune and take control of the time program.
Old Adam is from a future where Sorian is already in control and he says that it’s
not good.
Sorian bombed Laura’s jet and Laura has been waiting in the past until Adam found
her.
Later, Laura explains that Adam has to go back to 2018, stop time travel from being
invented and save the future.
But that means that he will never meet Laura.
Suddenly, an alarm sounds as they have been located.
Laura stays behind to buy them time as the Adam’s escape.
The jet still wont respond to old Adam so young Adam has to come with him despite his
initial protests.
He is finally convinced when they realize that they need to find their dad to help them.
Laura is fighting Christos when Sorian’s jet appears behind her, demanding to know
Adam’s location.
In the distance, they see Adam’s time jet leaving and as Laura grins, Sorian shoots
her down.
Sorian pursues Adam who hides his jet in a cave.
She radios him that his reactor is damaged - he has one jump left and if he doesn’t
come back now then he never will.
The Adams look at each other and decide to go for it.
Adam opens a wormhole and they escape.
In 2019, Adam’s dad is giving a lecture.
The Adam’s are watching from the back.
Old Adam makes Young Adam promise to say nothing to his Dad that he doesn’t need to know.
Adam’s father recognizes them immediately and they explain to him including that Sorian
has altered time.
That night at a motel, their father accepts responsibility but still thinks that they
should leave things alone as their being here opens up the potential for catastrophic reconfiguration.
Old Adam tries to make his father understand that young Adam needs him and he leaves them
alone.
His father tries to explain to young Adam that he can’t do what they want him to do.
Young Adam tries to speak to him but he leaves before Adam can say any more.
At Sorian Technologies, Sorian from 2018 is met by her older self who informs her of the
latest developments.
Young Sorian is already unhappy with the impact of what she has done since the last time Sorian
visited her.
Old Sorian tells her that Adam is about to betray them.
At the motel, young Adam realizes that rather than miss his father, old Adam has made himself
hate him for dieing.
Young Adam remembers things about his dad differently than his older self because it
was more recent.
Old Adam begins to understand and they finally start to get along.
Next day, Adam’s father decides to stay at home with his family.
His father wonders if he should have been more present but his wife assures him that
he doesn’t need to be perfect but he just needs to be there for Adam.
The Adams go to Sorian Technologies.
Old Adam approaches the building whilst the young stays behind with a bag of future tech.
Suddenly, troopers appear and surround the ođ.
Young Adam dispatches a drone and blasts the troopers away.
Old Adam uses his lightsaber to finish them off.
Some cars approach and they are smashed aside.
Out steps their father who explains that he has come to help.
He says that if they destroy the particle accelerator then Sorian will simply rebuild
it.
They need to destroy the mathematical equation that makes time travel possible.
Their father explains that there is a crystal hard drive in the basement running the algorithm
in a loop.
Old Adam understands that they have to destroy that hard drive.
Outside, young Adam is blindsided by an approaching time jet.
Old Adam and his father enter the basement and are about to destroy the hard drive when
the Sorian’s enter accompanied by more troops.
Old Sorian demands that Adam give her the drive and reveals that she has young Adam
captive.
She holds a gun to young Adam’s head and even young Sorian is appalled.
Everyone yells at old Adam to give her the drive but he signals to young Adam who knocks
the gun.
It goes off and the electromagnetic seal is compromised.
All the metal in the room is attracted to the electromagnet.
The troops are also attracted and one grabs young Adam and takes him with him.
His father tries to switch off the magnet as Christos battles old Adam to retrieve the
hard drive.
Young Adam manages to break free and as he drops to the ground he collects the lightsaber.
He tries to engage Christos who knocks him straight down.
Old Adam throws Christos into the path of some flying debris and he is hurled into the
core and the stability is compromised.
The Adams get up and are joined by their father who is unable to shut it down.
The Sorians arrive demanding the hard drive but their father appeals to the younger Sorian
who steps away from her older self.
As old Sorian shoots, the bullet is caught in the magnetic field and heads towards young
Sorian.
As she dies, old Sorian disappears.
The Adams and their father run and manage to escape through the containment doors just
in time.
Some time later, their father is surprised that the Adam’s are still there but they
assume that time will take a while to sort itself out.
They all return home and old Adam tries to tell his father what will happen to him.
His father says that he already knows - ever since he first saw them both.
He tells them that he loves them both and is proud of them and then they all hug.
Young Adam tells his father that he needs him but his father reassures him that he’ll
be ok - he has already seen the man he will become.
All three play a game of baseball and old Adam tells young Adam to give his mum a big
hug.
They start to get too sentimental and so just start to play ball.
Their father drops the ball and when he turns around the Adams have disappeared.
In 2022 young Adam comes down the stairs and leaves for school.
Before he leaves he turns around and gives his mum a big hug.
In the future, old Adam is in a lecture.
Laura walks in and they meet each other for the first time.
She is a guest lecturer but it appears that she is in the wrong place.
She says that she is lost but he tells her that she isn’t now because he found her.
He offers to take her to the right place saying that he has the time.
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