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In days of old, you would have to wait for the next day’s newspaper before you could read reviews for your movie or play.
How quaint.
Now you simply head to Google and you have thousands of opinions coming at you from every corner of the internet.
The Ryan Reynolds Netflix film The Adam Project was released last Friday.
In a nutshell, Reynolds “stars alongside Walker Scobell as Adam Reed, a 13-year old boy who is visited by a time-travelling futuristic fighter pilot version of himself on a mission to save all of existence from the threat of uninhibited time travel”.
Go on, then:
Review-wise, it’s a mixed bag.
The Guardian gave it four stars, Empire three stars, and IGN called it “a slick, futuristic family romp that captures the spirit of ‘80s sci-fi”.
But you’re a sadist like me, and you came for The Telegraph’s scathing one-star review. In we dive:
This time-travel family bonding adventure has designs on your soul, will try very hard to make you cry, and if you’re especially unlucky, may trigger the allergic reaction I had to it: a creeping rash of profound irritability which prickled its way steadily over me from head to toe.
There’s almost nothing the film does well, but that doesn’t stop it donning a winner’s smirk while it copies every 1980s science fiction smash you’ve ever seen…
The kindest thing the review says is that it flirts with being a two-star film somewhere in the middle, but the climax is “such a botched horror show it tips the whole thing into the zone of outright atrocity”.
Mark Ruffalo is panned, Jennifer Garner is panned, and director Shawn Levy is – you guessed it – panned:
You could hardly parody the payoff of a science-babbling Marvel blockbuster (Antman or Dr Strange, say) with more withering amateurishness.
Watching Netflix do their very worst Marvel impression here (using four MCU actors, to boot) prompts despair for the very concept of dumb fun.
There you have it.
On the flip side, Reynolds has inked a massive deal with Netflix. He’s reported to have earned an estimated $20 million for his previous Netflix gig, Red Notice, and likely banked a similar amount for The Adam Project.
You can say whatever the hell you like about me for those figures.
Oh, and The Adam Project clocked the third-best debut week for a Netflix movie ever, which is further proof that we continue to love trash entertainment.
[source:telegraph]
