{Movie Review} - Project Almanac
(It's late. I know.)
Project Almanac was produced by Andrew Form, Bradley Fuller, and Michael Bay and released to theaters January 30th. The plot consists of a group of friends creating a time machine to undo past mistakes, but they turn to cheating the lottery by doing things for their own benefit. As Back To The Future has taught us before, the actions they do in the future corrupts the past, and nothing is what it seems anymore. The film stars Jonny Weston (Chasing Mavericks, Taken 3 and Insurgent) and Sam Lerner (who is known for voice acting in Monster House).
According to RottenTomatoes.com, ninety-four percent of Rotten Tomato users were excited to see this movie. Many claimed that a time-traveling found footage film is a great idea, while some are going to see it because it was produced by Michael Bay. Overall, many people are excited for what this movie has in store for them.
However, as the movie has been released to the public, it settled with a Rotten Tomato score of thirty-five percent, or four point eight out of ten. The critic consensus states, “Project Almanac isn't without wit or originality, but its thin story and irritating found-footage camerawork ultimately make it difficult to recommend” (RottenTomatoes.com).
Brian Orndorf from Blu-Ray.com says “Instead of being offensively bad, ‘Almanac’ is merely dull. For a wily, quaking camera take on the needs of the heart, dramatic inertia, not time itself, is perhaps the feature's greatest enemy”. The grade he gave the movie was a C minus.
Upon watching the movie, the introduction immediately caught my attention. I found that the characters were diverse, but weird at the same time. As I progressed through the story, the found-footage style movie started to get old, and sometimes it was too shaky to even be watchable. But that did not stop the movie from being very funny and it even made subtle references to Back To The Future, another time-traveling themed movie. Overall, I left the movie theater with mixed emotions.
