what's going on to all my netflix movie fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie
files elliott back again with a brand new early movie review and today we're discussing the new
netflix sci-fi film by the name of the atom project which will be coming to netflix this
coming friday i got the opportunity to check it out early courtesy of the five folks over
at netflix and i'm really excited to let you all know if this sci-fi film starring ryan reynolds
is worth watching all in this spoiler-free review before we break it all down make sure you're
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what'd you think about it i want to know your pros and your cons your thoughts on the sci-fi elements
the family dynamic in this film the performances what were some things that didn't work for you all
and since we're talking ryan reynolds if you've seen enough of his movies what are your top three
ryan reynolds films let's talk about that in the comments below so going into the atom project
i was pretty excited for it number one just last year ryan reynolds and the director of this film
sean levy just worked together and they did such a great job of working together i love
the collaborations they have it kind of reminds me of how tom cruise and christopher mccrory have
such a good thing working right now so i love the collaboration with these two and then going into
this genre if you've known me long enough you know how much i love sci-fi but in particularly i love
time travel but time travel done right that's not all convoluted and has a bunch of nonsense
which speaking of the best time travel sci-fi story i've ever seen is on netflix and i suggest
you all watch if you haven't yet it's the greatest of all time i'm talking about dark so as i digress
check out dark but neither here nor there love the collaboration of the two people in the film
the director and actor love sci-fi and time travel what did i think about it well let's break it all
down starting off with my pros i want to talk about sean levy who i'm a fan of his work man
whether it be his time doing the the night of the museum films real steel is such an underrated film
i highly recommend you all give that a watch and like i just said he directed free guy last year
which was such a hit surprise and also he's executive producer of stranger things
what i love about sean he does such a great job of capturing fun right and not just fun but
family fun i feel like people can watch the atom project whether you're a kid an adult a teenager
i feel like everyone can find something to take away from this film more so i'll talk about my
favorite elements which is the family dynamic but just that that self journey of figuring
who you are out and going back and fixing your wrongs and correcting your wrongs and
doing that while having the sci-fi elements and again the heart that this film has was just really
fleshed out and has such a great payoff so i'm i'm just loving what sean levy is able to bring
whether it's again like shows like stranger things give them you know the the the brothers the duffel
brothers their influence on certain 80 vibes and the goonies of the world the et's the world which
this film has some of those elements so i'm just a big fan of his work and i really thought he had
a strong direction and telling a sci-fi film but also giving us something with some stakes
and some heart i really appreciate his direction but let's talk a little bit about the narrative
of this film without giving too much away if you all haven't seen the trailer with synopsis
we have ryan reynolds who goes by adam reid in this film who comes from the future i believe
it was 2050 to be exact he gets kind of caught up in this type of time travel conspiracy theory
he wants to go back in time to try to figure things out he unfortunately crashed lands in 2022
he runs to his younger self at the same time he has moments with his mother played by jennifer
gardner he has some moments with his father played by mark ruffalo and then he has his love interest
played by zoe zelda and the thing i really enjoyed about this narrative number one mention is fun
it's entertaining the sci-fi elements we'll get into a little bit later but i enjoyed the action
sequences that the film has to offer whether it's ryan reynolds with his little you know
lightsaber staff and you know the guns and the spaceships and the time travel all that stuff
was fun the thing i love about this narrative and the story in particular is the family dynamic like
i mentioned sean levy really knows how to pull out the heartstrings and when it comes to this
film without giving much of anything away just put it myself in ryan reynolds shoes if i'm able to
go back in time and interact with my younger self and interact with my loved ones at that particular
point in my life i just love that that narrative because there would be things i would want to fix
right and just not giving too much away in the performances but ryan reynolds his character
at this older point of his life in 2050 he has a lot of anger he has a lot of you know he's
an [ __ ] right he has a lot of resentment and you find out why when you see the film and i just love
the fixing of those kind of character flaws that he gets to do in this film and then the arc
that we get with not only his older self but his younger self and understanding why at that young
age of 12 he's a bit of an to say the least and you understand why in the relationship between the
parents which the best elements we did i wish we got more of it but seeing this reunion of 13 going
on 30 between mark ruffalo and jennifer gardner again i wish they were in the film a little bit
more more so mark ruffalo because he's really like focused on in the second and third act of
the film but neither here nor there when we do get them on screen i absolutely love the conversation
that mark ruffalo has with the older adam the younger adam the conversation he has with his wife
jennifer gardner having the same reflection of how she interacts with her younger son who again is
an [ __ ] but also gets this really sweet moment with her older uh the older version of adam later
in the film that i thought was just so fantastic so the thing i took away from this film again it's
fun it's it's flashy it has sci-fi elements it has time travel it has gadgets and this that the third
jokes whatever the case may be but the heart of this film the family drama the family dynamic was
easily the best part of this film but i do want to shine a light on the performances like i mentioned
i like ryan reynolds i know a lot of people aren't the biggest fan because he does the same shtick
but i've always said if you're good at something keep doing it right i mean he stretches his acting
flexibilities every now and then but i really had fun with ryan reynolds in this film there
were moments where i'm just like my thing and i'll talk about it later my criticism is i think ryan
reynolds always needs like a like a person that's the opposite of him to kind of really highlight
what he's good at but he's playing him like he's interacting with a younger version of himself so
it's like a mirror of two ryan riddle through this film but i did have fun with him i think
again ryan reynolds is an action star we know it as deadpool he's been in the blades he's you know
gonna be in the mcu sooner rather than later so he knows how to handle himself in action but i really
enjoyed the emotional beat sub we get with ryan reynolds showing you the acting abilities that he
has as well as his younger counterpart played by this young up and coming actor walker stall bell
who plays the younger version of himself and i thought that the kid he did an okay job he
is playing ryan reynolds right as as and again i think this is his first gig it is probably pretty
hard as a young kid to be able to uh you know have the mannerisms the same personality as a
an actor that's been acting for 20-plus years but i thought he did a good job for the most part the
best parts of the younger version of ryan rose to me were the second and the third act of the film
when we dive deeper into my favorite element which is the family dynamic that we get in the film so
again the jokes and stuff from the kid it's kind of hard to have this kid again being the pseudo
version the younger version of ryan reynolds but i thought that the emotional beats from that young
kid did a good job and then like i mentioned again jennifer gardner and the reunion she has with mark
ruffalo for my 13 30 13 going on 30s fans i love them and i thought they were great parents that
were you know displayed many different ranges of emotions and i really enjoyed their performances
so again the highlight of this film is the heart of the movie but let's transition into
my criticisms now i i touched on a little bit when it comes around reynolds i'm a big fan of
his work but i think he plays better when he has someone that's the opposite of him right and in
this film he's interacting 90 of the film is him and his younger self so it's just seeing like
little ryan reynolds versus big round rounds going back and forth you know bar for bar joke
for a joke assholary like they're both [ __ ] for the first half this film which made it kind
of hard for me to like the characters but like i said as the film moves on we learn more about
the older adam his relationship with zoe zeldin and his relationship with his mom and his dad
i enjoyed more of that narrative than i did in the first half which was just like
hey you're an [ __ ] you're an [ __ ] why are we [ __ ] that stuff to me didn't really work that
well because i think ryan reynolds again plays so much better when he has someone that's not
you know necessarily has regretted has these quick little jokey jokes which again when he
has his moments with his father again mark ruffalo wasn't playing the jokey joke he was more of the
concerned dad so it played better for that dynamic versus again seeing two of the same characters
doing the same thing for the first half wasn't my favorite element there were some performances by
the younger kid again i thought that because again he's given the task to playing an ol a younger
version of ryan reynolds some of those beats didn't work for me entirely but i won't blame
the kid because again if i'm not mistaken this is his first gig and for this being his first gig
a sci-fi action time travel film with these big stars i think he did a good job for the most part
but there is an actor in this film that i'm a big fan of catherine keener who plays maya in
this film who's somewhat of a villain of the movie what a fantastic actress
she can play villain watch incredibles 2 at least her the voice acting there but in this film
miss cass entirely i did not find her menacing i didn't find her motives to be all that clear and
then i don't want to give too much away but as i mentioned this is a time travel film so she goes
back in time to try to stop ryan reynolds to do what he's trying to do in this film
and there's this deep fake scene oh my goodness was it so distracting because it was so terrible
i i know we've come a long way for the deep fake right and marvel and and star wars have
proven that we can have these you know actors make themselves look younger but oh my goodness when
you see her in this film when she's interacting with her younger self those were some of the worst
scenes to me and again everything that character had to do in this film was just terrible to me
and then this breaks my heart because i love zoey zelda i did not enjoy the chemistry between her
and ryan reynolds you get towards a certain point in the film it was fine and it was a great call
back but when when they interact in the film i didn't find their chemistry be all that strong
and i thought that zoe was just kind of overacting at scenes so those were some characters i love
those actresses again catherine and zoe i love you all but i just didn't think that the writing
was all that great for you all which brings me to my last point there's about four or five writers
in this film and you can feel that in the parts of this movie there's a lot of different tones
a lot of different jokes they didn't land a lot of different sci-fi elements which i'm again i
love sci-fi and the time travel explanation wasn't all that great for me again the family dynamic was
fantastic the sci-fi was a little weak and had a lot of plot holes i don't want to say which
ones because there's obviously spoilers but i wasn't the biggest fan of some of the writing
and particularly the sci-fi elements of this movie but those are kind of my main criticisms i talked
about my pros let me give you all my overall score and if you should watch it but before we do that
make sure if you haven't already to like the video share it leave your thoughts in the comments
overall the atom project at its best is when it focuses on the family dynamic between
ryan reynolds and his younger self and his mom and his dad and explaining why he is the
way he is later on in his life and addressing that as a younger kid i love those elements
it was fun i think sean levy does such a great job of bringing in those fun elements i wasn't
the biggest fan of some of the sci-fi time travel elements and i mentioned how i thought that
katherine and zoe unfortunately just didn't work for me but overall i had fun with it i i recommend
you all watch this with your family or if you like these type of films give it a watch yourself i'm
gonna give of the adam project a three out of five i love the family dynamic but the sci-fi elements
and those two performances to me really kind of took me out of the film out points but overall
i still recommend you all give it a watch and when you do let me know your pros your cons your
favorite moments least favorite moments your top three ryan reynolds films let's talk about
that in the comments below if you stuck around to this point in the video i appreciate you again a
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