If your looking for a coherent and scientific explanation of the dangers of time travel your not going to get it from this film. However that's not a bad thing although the danger of damaging the present by changing the past is ever present. where this film is at it's best is in the characters 5 teens creating a time machine seems highly unlikely but the action they take once the time machine is up and running is highly believable. Using extraordinary means to solve ordinary problems. Money troubles getting bullied to the the biggest and most complex of all teenagers problems falling in love. How many of us have dreamt about going back in time and winning that big super lotto jackpot or just being able to pass that important test by knowing the answer before you take it. This film really starts to fall apart when things fall apart it is hard to wrap up a time travel story with any sort of clarity that is just the nature of time travel unable to reset things and also have that happy ending. Project almanac fails in it's attempt at giving the audience any real closer. The end feels rushed and by trying to not be predictable feels a little false. As a whole the film entertains as an advert for why it's a good thing teenagers don't have time machines.
Review of Project Almanac
Project Almanac
(2015)
Project x meets chronicle with a touch of back to the future
21 February 2015
Warning: Spoilers