Movie Review The Adam Project

The Adam Project 

Directed by Shawn Levy

Written by Jonathan Tropper, T.S Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin

Starring Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Keener, Zoe Saldaña

Release Date March 11th, 2022 

The Adam Project stars Ryan Reynolds in the role of Adam Reed. Adam is a pilot in some unspecified dystopian future where time travel has not only been discovered, it’s been used for nefarious purposes. When Adam decides to fight back and steal a time traveling spaceship, he ends up getting shot before jumping back in time to the year 2022. There, Adam plants his ship in the trees behind his childhood home and meets his 12 year old self, played by Walker Scobell. 

Needing a place to recover while he repairs his ship, Adam is forced to work with his younger self whose DNA is needed to repair the ship. It turns out that Adam’s late father, played by Mark Ruffalo invented time travel before his untimely death in 2018 under mysterious circumstances. Dad named the entire time travel project after Adam and he’s become integral to the program run by Sorian (Catherine Keener), Dad’s former partner who is a little bit greedy and a whole lot evil.

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Movie Review Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) 

Directed by Wes Ball 

Written by T.S Nowlin 

Starring Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Aiden Gillen

Release Date January 26th, 2018 

The problem with the first two movies in The Maze Runner franchise was simple mediocrity and blandness. The films weren’t terrible, they weren’t poorly made; the movies’ just didn’t leave much of an impression. The expansive, bland but handsome teen cast was too large and not well developed enough as individuals to be memorable and lead Dylan O’Brien wasn’t bad either but the script did him few favors.

Now that we arrive at the final movie in the franchise, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, we get the first genuinely bad entry in the series. The Death Cure is an utterly moronic and misguided action movie that relies heavily on you remembering the two previous movies which may not have been terrible but were far from memorable. And on top of the homework the producers expect you to do in order to follow the plot; the film is 2 hours and 25 tedious minutes long.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure opens with an incredibly poorly staged action sequence. Our hero Thomas (O’Brien) and his allies are attacking a train owned by the evil, post-apocalyptic corporation WCKD, pronounced Wicked. I assume the evil corporation is called Wicked just in case the audience is dumb enough not to realize who the bad guys are.

Thomas and his team are here to rescue their friend Minho (Ki Hong Lee) whose name changes at least seven times throughout the movie, depending on which character is talking. I’m not kidding; at various points in the movie, Minho is called Minnow, Mean-Ho, and Meano. My best guess is that his name is pronounced Min-Ho but I can’t be sure about that. I spent a good deal of time considering the name because I had little else holding my interest.

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