I saw "Project Almanac", starring Jonny Weston-Taken 3, Chasing Mavericks; Sofia Black-D'Elia-Gossip Girl_tv, Skins_tv; Sam Lerner-The Goldbergs_tv, Suburgatory_tv and Allen Evangelista-Brooklyn Nine- Nine_t.v., The Secret Life of the American Teenager_t.v.
This is a teen/time travel/shaky camera combination that pretty much works, except for the shaky camera part. Maybe it's just me, but I'm getting a little tired of this hand-held , shaky camera style of movie. All through the film you will hear one character or another say something like, "We need to record everything! Are you still recording?" Anyway, Jonny plays a shy high school whiz kid that is hoping to go to MIT on a scholarship. Sofia plays the girl of his dreams that he is afraid to talk to, for fear of rejection. Sam and Allen are his best buds. It seems that Jonny's father was also good in science and hid some plans for a time machine in the basement, just before he died. Jonny and friends happen upon the blueprints to said time machine and assemble a working model and that's when the fun begins. It starts with little trips and little things, such as going back and passing a test, or maybe stopping a bully, or even winning the lottery. They also make a rule that no one will ever use the machine alone, that they will always go together as a team. Then someone notices a few changes because of their time jumps. They appear to have caused a ripple effect or butterfly effect-wait a minute, that is a different movie-and Jonny decides to try to correct them by jumping on his own. Being a science whiz kid, Jonny should know that breaking the rules is never a good thing when it comes to time travel. It's rated "PG-13" for language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 46 minutes. I don't think that I would buy it on DVD-If it was not the shaky camera style, I would have probably liked it more-but it would be alright, as a rental.
This is a teen/time travel/shaky camera combination that pretty much works, except for the shaky camera part. Maybe it's just me, but I'm getting a little tired of this hand-held , shaky camera style of movie. All through the film you will hear one character or another say something like, "We need to record everything! Are you still recording?" Anyway, Jonny plays a shy high school whiz kid that is hoping to go to MIT on a scholarship. Sofia plays the girl of his dreams that he is afraid to talk to, for fear of rejection. Sam and Allen are his best buds. It seems that Jonny's father was also good in science and hid some plans for a time machine in the basement, just before he died. Jonny and friends happen upon the blueprints to said time machine and assemble a working model and that's when the fun begins. It starts with little trips and little things, such as going back and passing a test, or maybe stopping a bully, or even winning the lottery. They also make a rule that no one will ever use the machine alone, that they will always go together as a team. Then someone notices a few changes because of their time jumps. They appear to have caused a ripple effect or butterfly effect-wait a minute, that is a different movie-and Jonny decides to try to correct them by jumping on his own. Being a science whiz kid, Jonny should know that breaking the rules is never a good thing when it comes to time travel. It's rated "PG-13" for language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 46 minutes. I don't think that I would buy it on DVD-If it was not the shaky camera style, I would have probably liked it more-but it would be alright, as a rental.