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Science fiction author David Brin says there is just one reason for time travel: “Make it didn’t happen.” The idea of correcting, no, preventing one mistake is an irresistible fantasy. And whether it's about protecting the future mother of the only hero who can lead a rebellion against Skynet or making sure your own parents fall in love so that you and your siblings will be born, the movies have given us some of our favorite stories of rescue operations by traveling through time. “The Adam Project” is a popcorn pleasure from the director and the star of last year’s “ Free Guy .”

It begins with a banger, indeed one of the banger-iest songs of all time, Spencer Davis Group’s 1966 “Gimme Some Lovin’.” It is not there to tell us where we are in time or anything about rocket ship pilot Adam Reed ( Ryan Reynolds ). No matter, it’s just there to bring a jolt of energy as we join the story mid-chase. We know Reynolds can play other characters, but here he is what he does most and best, a snarky action hero. “What are you doing, Captain?” the instantly recognizable voice of Catherine Keener asks over speaker. “I think it’s pretty obvious I’m stealing this jet.” We are told that it is 2050 and time travel exists but we don’t know it yet. And we can see that Adam is in trouble. Both he and the ship have been hit. “I’m sorry to interrupt what I’m sure is going to be a really scary threat,” he says as he jams her tracking system and evades capture by escaping through a wormhole that takes him back to 2022.

Meanwhile, in the present, Adam Reed, age 12 ( Walker Scobell ), is getting suspended for the third time for fighting with a bully. He and his mother ( Jennifer Garner as Ellie) are still mourning for Adam’s father, who was killed in a car accident more than a year before, and he is angry about that, about being small for his age, about pretty much everything and so he is very big with the snarky comebacks, even when he knows it means a beating.

Big Adam arrives at Young Adam’s house (his old house), injured, with a damaged ship. Reynolds and Scobell are a terrific match, with the same rhythms, both in observation and in snark. They also have the same scar under their chins and the same watch, their dad’s watch. It does not take long for Young Adam to figure out he is talking to his future self. It takes a little longer for Big Adam to realize that his younger self deserves some compassion. While he tells Young Adam that it is all of the trauma he experiences that will give him the strength and cynicism he relies on as an adult, he learns that maybe a little less trauma will be beneficial to them both.

It also does not take long for the bad guys to arrive, along with two key figures I will not spoil. “The Adam Project” deftly balances the action with the comedy inherent in conflict between the two Adams. Both versions of Adam are exceptionally good at getting on the nerves of everyone around them, and it's fun to see how they are at the same time irritated by and appreciative of each other’s smart-aleck comebacks. Big Adam does not want to be reminded about how unhappy and angry he was as a 12-year-old. Young Adam is as thrilled at the prospect of growing up to look like Ryan Reynolds as he is to learn that there is such a thing as time travel and ride in a real space ship. He does not understand how unhappy and angry his future self is, but we do.

The characters make references to “The Terminator” and “ Back to the Future ” but the film also draws from the underrated “ Frequency ” and from stories going back to the myth of Orpheus. And fans of “13 Going on 30” will appreciate seeing Garner and Mark Ruffalo as a devoted couple. (Ruffalo unfortunately does not have any scenes with co-star Zoe Saldaña, who played his wife in the indie gem “ Infinitely Polar Bear .”)

The film more than delivers on the promise of its premise with better-than-expected production design from Claude Paré for the futuristic gizmos and special effects by Scanline VFX for the way they are deployed. The action and fight scenes are very well staged, especially one with a tender reunion in the midst of the mayhem. Big Adam’s warming to his younger version gives the story some heart in the midst of the mayhem as well. There is genuine tenderness in his realization that anger does not prevent sadness and that second chances are possible. The action and fantasy are fun, but this is what families will want to talk about after they watch it together.

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Nell Minow is the Contributing Editor at RogerEbert.com.

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The Adam Project (2022)

Rated PG-13 for violence/action, language and suggestive references.

106 minutes

Ryan Reynolds as Big Adam

Walker Scobell as Young Adam

Zoe Saldana

Mark Ruffalo as Louis Reed

Jennifer Garner as Ellie

Catherine Keener as Sorien

Jonathan Tropper
T.S. Nowlin
Jennifer Flackett

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Tobias A. Schliessler
Dean Zimmerman
Rob Simonsen

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A slick, futuristic family romp that captures the spirit of ‘80s sci-fi..

The Adam Project debuts on Netflix on March 11, 2022.

There are some movies that stick with you from the moment you first see them. The Last Starfighter is one of mine. Growing up in the ‘80s, I knew the importance of an arcade high score and The Last Starfighter was the ultimate in sci-fi wish fulfillment. Many of us kids of that time dreamed of becoming a Starfighter. We watched Flight of the Navigator and E.T. in the hopes that we would one day get to experience an epic sci-fi adventure of our very own.

The Adam Project is this generation’s The Last Starfighter.

Ryan Reynolds stars as Adam Reed, a futuristic fighter pilot who’s stolen a time jet in order to leap back in time and save the woman he loves. It’s a neat, simple concept that’s made into something greater when he’s shot down mid-time-jump and ends up several years off course… and only his younger self (Walker Scobell) can help him get back on track.

The Adam Project is like a leap into the past – a film that revels in the sci-fi nerdiness of the ‘80s while packing epic adventure and heartfelt life lessons into a fun, time traveling yarn.

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Of course, young Adam is suitably freaked out upon meeting his older self – at least at first. Thankfully, it’s not long before the two Adams are trading verbal blows, with Ryan Reynolds in top form, spitting out quips like they’re going out of fashion. But it’s not just more of the same from Reynolds.

Instead, there’s a subtle weariness to future Adam that hides decades of daddy issues, and while Reynolds plays his usual sarcastic shtick for laughs, he balances that out with a pensive, more restrained performance that draws out the real story – it’s all about their dad, played by the ever-charismatic Mark Ruffalo. The Adam Project is as much about reconciling Adam’s own past as it is about saving the future, a neat touch that elevates this beyond a simple time-travel yarn and gives the film a lot more depth.

Walker Scobell is an absolute revelation, too. The young newcomer really digs into what makes young Adam tick, piloting his favorite video game like an ace while getting the crap kicked out of him at school. Best of all, the chemistry between young and future Adam is just about perfect.

Their back and forth is truly inspired, giving the film a humorous edge as future Adam rediscovers what a dork he used to be. Scobell holds his own opposite Reynolds, too, matching his trademark acerbic wit pound for pound. He's the perfect young Adam to Reynolds' future Adam, and he’s definitely one to watch.

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That clash of personalities extends to The Adam Project’s design choices, too, as director Shawn Levy walks an interesting line between ultra-futuristic and comfortably retro. It’s perhaps to be expected from a filmmaker who has brought us both Stranger Things and Free Guy , but the marrying of two different styles works incredibly well.

Future Adam’s plight has a lot in common with Minority Report as he desperately tries to alter his own destiny, aided by his ultra-futuristic, DNA-locked tech from a sleek and shiny future. But for young Adam, it’s more of an ‘80s romp.

The mysterious spacecraft crash in the woods behind his home has distinct Flight of the Navigator vibes, with Adam keeping his time-traveling secret from his mother like Elliott from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Tugging at our nostalgia strings is the aim of the game here, and it works so well. Thankfully, it’s a lot more than that, with a stylish take on futuristic time travel that works incredibly well.

The Adam Project is also packed full of impressive action sequences. The fight scenes are furiously simple yet beautifully effective… and while future Adam may not admit that his energy stick weapon is a lightsaber, it really kind of is. And even though young Adam is no fighter, he too gets his time to shine with an impressively manoeuvred drone takedown that compliments future Adam’s fisticuffs.

You can feel a certain chemistry between Reynolds and his director, too, with Levy getting the absolute greatest out of his leading man. In fact, Reynolds is in the best form we’ve seen in a long while. A triumphant, sweeping score from Rob Simonsen completes the retro-futuristic feel, punctuating this feel-good adventure with epic crescendos and highlighting the mounting lit-by-flashlight tension with classic ‘80s synth vibes.

On the surface, The Adam Project is another attempt to hook us with nostalgia. The action-packed sci-fi adventure is straight out of our childhoods, and it will definitely resonate with viewers of a certain age. Thankfully, it’s a lot deeper than that. The Adam Project also tells a story about reconciling our past and really coming to terms with the life we’ve lived and the choices we’ve made.

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The Adam Project is an absolute delight for those of us who lived through the ‘80s… or for those who wish they had. Its retro-futuristic stylings are kept in check by a laser-sharp script and some truly wonderful exchanges between Reynolds and his younger self, Scobell. Throw in a handful of epic action scenes and an almost-lightsaber and The Adam Project gives us a sci-fi epic that will really take you back.

The Adam Project is a thoughtful, witty mash-up of all the movies from my childhood. It’s Back to the Future meets The Last Starfighter with a slew of wonderful performances from a cast that clearly loves the concept as much as I do. Ryan Reynolds is on top form as Adam, while Walker Scobell matches him punch for punch with a great debut performance. The Adam Project is a love letter to the family sci-fi flicks of the ‘70s and ‘80s, packed full of Amblin-like charm.

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This article contains major spoilers for The Adam Project

The Adam Project is a super fun new sci-fi movie from Netflix that speeds through its key rules and pretty much asks you not to worry about them, but if you’re the kind of person that worries about the rules, you’re gonna worry about them anyway!

Let’s look at how Netflix’s big budget family movie sets out the past, present, and future, and explore the film’s hopeful ending, which wipes the slate clean for a planet on the road to some very, very bad times.

Why Did Adam Travel Back in Time?

Hotshot pilot Adam Reed ( Ryan Reynolds ) is on a mission to locate and rescue his wife, Laura (Zoe Saldana). Against the rules laid out by his superiors headed up by Maya Sorian (Catherine Keener) in a dystopian 2050, he steals a jet and time-jumps back to 2018 to find out what happened to Laura but accidentally winds up in 2022 instead, where he meets his cute-but-mouthy 12-year-old self (played by Walker Scobell), whose tiny frame, asthma issues, and “punchable face” are a long way from the tall, handsome, and incredibly ripped version of Future Adam.

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Realising he’s misjudged the time jump by four years, Adam has little patience for the tricky situation he’s now in, and the awful way Young Adam treats his mother Ellie (Jennifer Garner) after his father’s sudden death. In the future, Adam has shifted his anger and grief from his mother’s shoulders onto his dead dad’s legacy: it turns out daddy Louis (Mark Ruffalo) was the one who accidentally invented time travel in the first place, causing a chain reaction that led to a very bleak future for everyone, including Adam.

The Time Jet

Gritting his teeth and buckling down, Future Adam realizes he needs Young Adam to fix his damaged ship , as the time jet’s controls work by recognizing the user’s DNA. Because Adam is injured, the jet won’t let him fix the damage or fly it. However, Young Adam’s uninjured DNA will apparently work just fine in a pinch so that Adam can heal and hopefully take over control of the ship after repairs are complete. Unfortunately, Adam doesn’t heal before he jumps back to 2018, and so Young Adam has to stick around.

Meanwhile, the villainous Sorian and her clean up crew track the time jet back to the past, where Adam has temporarily escaped her clutches.

Time Travel Logic

Young Adam is excited to meet his buff older self, but is naturally very confused and inquisitive about how time travel works. He wants to know if Adam remembers everything that’s happening, since they’re the same person and all. Or maybe this is a multiverse situation where these events are kickstarting a completely different timeline now that Adam has interfered with the past?

Adam rebuffs as many questions from his younger self as possible and dismisses the notion of a multiverse, mocking him for watching too many movies (the MCU is shaking), telling him that when he goes back to the future his memories of these events will be restored so that he knows what happened, but right now he doesn’t know how all this is going to end or how much of a mess he’s made of the timeline, which is fixed on “a quantum level.”

Yes, unlike those pesky Avengers: Endgame time travel rules , Adam can absolutely change the future here by traveling back to the past, and his quest to find out what exactly happened to his wife Laura may do just that.

Adam’s Wife Laura

Adam tells Young Adam how he met his wife, Laura, when he was still at the academy. She had arrived late to a lecture and was in the wrong building. He’d offered to walk her to where she needed to be and he fell head over heels in love with her.

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In the future, Laura hadn’t come back from a time jump, and Adam was informed that her jet broke up on re-entry. He refused to believe this because Laura was the best pilot in their program. He discovered her flight logs were altered by someone keen to hide the truth, and that’s why he first decided to hop back to 2018 and investigate her fateful mission.

Adam suspects that Future Sorian was involved in Laura’s disappearance, and Young Adam is perplexed. To him, Young Sorian is simply his dead dad’s lovely business partner.

Laura eventually shows up to fight with Adam in 2022 while his younger self tags along. She has been in hiding for the last four years waiting for Adam to come and find her. Laura tells him that her mission to 2018 went awry after she began investigating jump logs that indicated someone had been visiting that point in history and was wiping the data.

Laura explains that it was Future Sorian, who has been tinkering with the early months of time travel development in order to engineer a glorious future by giving her younger self tips on how to get the job done. Sorian has already changed the future using her tech knowledge and past working relationship with Adam’s father, and this future is now the only one Adam knows. It’s…not good.

It’s clear that Adam has to go back to 2018 – for real this time – and stop time travel from ever being invented, even if it means losing Laura forever. Laura then dies keeping Future Sorian busy so that Adam and Young Adam can escape to 2018.

Sorian’s Deal

Adam is pursued into the past by Future Sorian, who is dead set on eliminating Adam to make sure he doesn’t meddle with her illustrious future as the Queen of Pretty Much Everything.

Thanks to her nefarious time jumps, Sorian has gotten rich off Adam’s dad’s time travel tech, and become incredibly powerful. In the future she has control over the most valuable resource on Earth: time travel. Why did she do all this? Because in the past that she has now changed, the government originally took the time travel tech and research away from her in the wake of Louis’ death, and she was left feeling like all the money and huge life sacrifices she made for the company were pointless.

Once again traveling back to 2018, Future Sorian tells Young Sorian that they need to clean up the Adam problem before its too late.

The MacGuffin

Adam’s dad Louis invents the magnetic particle accelerator circa 2018 while working with Sorian. He dubs his research “The Adam Project” (hey, that’s the name of the film!) and Future Adam has to convince him to destroy everything he’s worked for to prevent time travel technology from evolving.

It’s not an easy task. Louis and Adam had a difficult relationship when he was a child because Louis spent a lot of time at work, and Adam felt neglected. The two come to blows when they meet, but Louis eventually understands that the only way to save humanity from Sorian’s terrible future is to destroy The Adam Project.

Adam, Young Adam and Louis infiltrate the Sorian Technology facility in order to shut down The Adam Project for good. All they need to do is to remove and kill the crystal hard drive at the heart of the magnetic particle accelerator , because apart from this single piece of physical tech Louis never shared the algorithm that makes it all work with anyone else.

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As Louis and Adam set out to complete their mission, the Sorians intervene to stop them changing their future, and Future Sorian threatens to kill Young Adam. Louis tries to reason with her to no avail, and Sorian accidentally ruptures the electromagnetic seal containing the MPA. Magnetic items are drawn towards the MPA, and the reactor begins to fall apart.

Future Sorian then tries to kill Louis and take the hard drive, but the armor-piercing bullet deflects towards the MPA and kills her younger self instead, eliminating Future Sorian from the timeline. Louis is confused because the two versions of his son are still lingering in the past when they should have also disappeared, but the pair assure him that it is happening, albeit more slowly than with Sorian.

Louis comes to understand that he will soon die, leaving Adam alone with his mother. He refuses to hear critical information that will save his life, as he already feels conflicted about changing the future of time travel itself, let alone his own future path, but he takes the little time they all have left to reconcile with his sons, and the trio play one last game of catch before the Adams vanish.

Future Adam tells Young Adam that he should take the time to appreciate his mom, and realizes that his own efforts to escape the memories of his youth were futile and damaging. Meanwhile, Louis is left with the understanding that he should spend more time with his family before he dies.

Back in 2022, Young Adam begins forging a more loving relationship with Ellie. In a flash-forward to the future, we discover than Laura was right to hope that she and Adam would still meet and fall in love in the future, and we see their encounter at the academy play out under the same circumstances described by Adam earlier in the film.

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Warning: Spoilers for The Adam Project ahead.

Netflix's The Adam Project deals with time travel and villains and its ending grapples with multiple themes, meaning, and sets up a potential sequel. Starring Ryan Reynolds as Adam Reed, a time-traveling pilot on a very specific mission, The Adam Project is a sci-fi yarn with a lot of heart, reminiscent of the Amblin movies of the 80s. Reynolds reteams with his Free Guy director Shawn Levy for the movie, which also stars Mark Ruffalo as Louis Reed, Jennifer Garner as Ellie Reed, Zoe Saldana as Laura, Catherine Keener as Maya Sorian, and Walker Scobell as young Adam.

Reynolds' Adam (Big Adam) is a pilot from the year 2050 who steals a ship and attempts to travel back to 2018 but ends up in 2022. Injured and needing the assistance of his younger self (Young Adam) to help restart his damaged ship as it's coded to his DNA and won't reset when Big Adam is wounded, Big Adam is on a mission to find his wife, Laura (Saldana) , also a pilot, who mysteriously disappeared on a mission to 2018. That explanation of her death doesn't sit well with Big Adam, prompting the ship theft and subsequent inadvertent arrival in 2022, where he finds that Laura is alive and has been stranded since 2018. Things get worse when the villain Maya Sorian, comes looking for Adam. Though she claims to have discovered time travel, it was really Adam's father, Louis, who did. But Sorian has been using it to travel back to make her younger self (thereby her older self) rich and powerful, and she intends to stop Adam from revealing her duplicity.

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Once reunited, Big Adam, Young Adam, and Laura deduce Sorian's time travel deeds and decide that they must travel back to 2018, reunite with Louis, and enlist him to help stop time travel from ever becoming a thing. Louis immediately recognizes what's happening when both versions of his son arrive in 2018 and helps them both to see their plan through by destroying " The Adam Project " and re-aligning the timestream, subsequently stopping Sorian for good and making peace with the past (and future) of their lives. Here's the ending explained and what it really means.

The Adam Project's Time Travel & Villain Plan Explained

The Adam Project Villain, Maya Sorian, Catherine Keener

Maya Sorian in 2018 is a wealthy investor who helps fund Louis Reed's research into The Adam Project , an electromagnetic particle accelerator, which has the ability to create wormholes that pilots can fly through to travel through time. The accelerator is powered by a mathematical algorithm created by Louis, which is housed in a crystal hard drive plugged into the accelerator. Just as they go public, Louis is killed in a car accident (which is implied to have been caused by Sorian) and Sorian takes over the project, effectively controlling time travel. However, that's not enough for Sorian, as she travels back to 2018 to try and change the timestream to make herself more wealthy and powerful while attempting to erase Louis' contributions to The Adam Project . When Laura discovers that Sorian is traveling back to 2018, Sorian sabotages her ship in an attempt to stop her from revealing the truth, telling Adam that she died during re-entry and prompting Adam to go on his own mission to find out what really happened.

Why The Bullet Doesn't Hit Louis (& Kills Maya Instead)

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In the film's final scene at Sorian's headquarters, the two Adams and Louis infiltrate the sub-level where the electromagnetic particle accelerator is kept in 2018, with the plan to steal the crystal hard drive that houses Louis's mathematical algorithm. At one point, a captured Young Adam causes Old Sorian's handgun to go off, breaking the electromagnetic seal on the accelerator, which causes everything magnetic to be pulled into it. Old Sorian eventually has all three Reed boys at gunpoint, threatening to shoot Louis if he doesn't hand over the crystal drive. Louis refuses and Old Sorian calls his bluff, firing a single round at him, which dovetails and hits Young Sorian instead. As Louis explains to Big Adam afterward, the armor-piercing bullet had a magnetic steel core, which caused it to deflect and fly toward the accelerator, hitting Young Sorian in the chest as she was standing in the bullet's path, effectively killing both versions of her at once.

Do Adam & Laura Recognize Each Other (& Will They Get Back Together?)

The Adam Project future, Ryan Reynolds, Zoe Saldana

After time travel is destroyed by both Adams and their father, everyone is returned to their place in time, seemingly erasing all memory of what happened. Earlier in the Ryan Reynolds movie , when Adam and Laura are reunited in 2022, the idea comes up that Adam must stop time travel from ever happening. Adam is resistant to the idea, as he loves Laura and doesn't want to lose her (again). The key to whether or not they recognize each other at the end of the film comes from what Laura says to him in that moment in 2022: "Every moment we ever had will always have happened, even if we correct the timestream, somewhere in us will be the echo of this one and we will find each other."

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This seems to later be proven true in The Adam Project 's ending. When Big Adam is back in the moment at the flight academy where they originally met in 2050, the two connect just as they had originally. But there's a moment of recognition in Laura's eyes, as if she suddenly realized something, which is likely her early premonition come true. A similar thing happens to Young Adam in 2022 back in his timeline, when he's seen hugging his mom after suddenly feeling he is supposed to, fulfilling the instruction of Big Adam from before, who asked his young self to do just that.

What The Adams & Their Dad's Game Of Catch Really Means

The Adam Project catch, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo

Throughout the film, Big Adam has a standoffish relationship with Louis, his father, as he carries the emotional baggage of him not being around much when he was alive. Young Adam, however, reminds Big Adam that prior to his death, their dad would play catch with Adam every day, no matter how tired he was, always making time to squeeze in that moment. After they have destroyed The Adam Project and the three share a tender moment together with Mark Ruffalo's character telling both of his boys that he loves them and that he can't know about his inevitable fate, he suggests a game of catch. The three stand in the backyard, tossing the ball to one another, which gives Young Adam another moment of happiness with his father, while Big Adam is finally able to be reminded of happier times and make his peace with his dad. For Louis, the moment is about appreciating his legacy, sharing time with both versions of his son, knowing that he won't ever see them at that age again. The game of catch is ultimately about cherishing the time that they have together, no matter how fleeting. Earlier in the film, Louis mentions a saying by the Romans: "Enjoy yourselves. It's later than you think , " which is all about living every moment one can while they can.

Will The Adam Project 2 Happen? What A Sequel's Story Could Be

The Adam Project 2, Crystal drive, Mark Ruffalo

While the Adams and Louis destroy the electromagnetic accelerator at Sorian's headquarters and escape before it collapses into itself, there's one component that still exists in the 2018 timeline: Louis. As he created the mathematical algorithm that was stored on the crystal drive, it would seemingly be within his power to recreate it before he dies (if that even still takes place now that Sorian is dead). While both Adams return to their respective timelines as if nothing ever happened and time travel never existed, the fact remains that Louis, in 2018, still has the scientific knowledge to recreate time travel and take it in a whole other direction. While his main funding died with Sorian, it's entirely possible that Louis could restart his work with a new, potentially less evil contributor. Life in Big Adam's 2050 is never seen in The Adam Project movie , but perhaps a sequel could have Louis restart his work, open a wormhole, and travel to the future to recruit Big Adam, potentially stopping by the current timeline to pick up Young Adam (now older) to take part in the adventure. With the concept of time travel a major part of the film, The Adam Project 2 would have limitless possibilities.

The Adam Project's Real Meaning Explained

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The Adam Project has a few key takeaways, but the biggest is that people should soak up the time that they have with those they love, as they never know when they'll be gone. This kicks off immediately, as Adam's entire mission to 2018 was about finding Laura, whom he lost very suddenly. The theme of loss continues in the Ryan Reynolds movie as much of the film is spent revolving around the untimely death of Louis and the effect it has on Adam in both 2022 and 2050, as both versions feel the loss differently. Big Adam is bitter and angry about his father's death, while Young Adam is still feeling the raw emotions of it and simply misses his father. When both Adams see their father in 2018 it stirs their emotions and allows both to resolve their pain over his loss in different ways. Big Adam is reminded of the good times with his father, while Young Adam gets the closure of seeing his father alive once more, which effectively folds into their time consciousness at the film's resolution. Young Adam also resolves his indifferent attitude to his mother by the end of The Adam Project , finally showing her the love and affection she desperately needs from him, which again tackles the theme of embracing the time spent with loved ones.

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Stylized violence, language in emotional time-travel tale.

A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

Our time on earth is short. It's easier to be angr

People make personal sacrifices, including risking

Main characters are mostly White except the lead c

Frequent sci-fi action violence, plus bullying. Ki

Kissing, in one case passionately and presumably l

"S--t," partial "motherf----r," "ass," "a--hole,"

Car brands, beer signs at bar.

Adults drink wine, liquor, and beer.

Positive Messages

Our time on earth is short. It's easier to be angry than sad, but sometimes you can forget there's a difference. Family provides a child's place in the world and sense of identity. Kids don't need a parent to be perfect; they just need a parent to be there for them. Sometimes scientific discoveries can be used for negative purposes. It pays to be a nerd.

Positive Role Models

People make personal sacrifices, including risking their own lives, for the larger good of humanity. Parents and kids learn they can support each other through difficult periods rather than retreating into their own emotions. Adults and kids both cover their true emotions with sarcasm and feigned indifference. A father shares his love and pride for his grown son.

Diverse Representations

Main characters are mostly White except the lead character's wife, who is Black. Main characters are "nerds" and scientists, and a running theme is how being a nerd can pay off.

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Violence & Scariness

Frequent sci-fi action violence, plus bullying. Kids tease and punch an asthmatic kid who's smaller than them. A character has a bleeding gunshot wound. A father died in a car accident. A sympathetic character is killed. Multiple deadly fights with futuristic soldiers, some fistfights and battles between humans. Futuristic weapons kill humans and robots by shooting, stabbing, disintegrating, electrocuting, beating. A tween attacks robots with a video game-like drone system. Car chases result in cars shot at, flipped over, and exploded. A man jokes about wanting to drown an annoying kid. A character has a stash of weapons in her floor.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Kissing, in one case passionately and presumably leading to sex. Jokes about "penis," getting "laid," and a jacket that makes a man "look like a condom with buttons."

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"S--t," partial "motherf----r," "ass," "a--hole," "damn," "goddamn it," "bitch," "hell," "crap," "moron," "jeez," "jerk," "balls," "turd-burper," "loser," "pee," "frickin'," "suck." "God" and "Christ" used as exclamations.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that The Adam Project is a time-traveling mystery starring Jennifer Garner , Ryan Reynolds , and Zoe Saldana that has lots of action and humor, as well as emotional family drama that includes deaths of loved ones. A son has never properly forgiven his father for dying young and takes it out on his mother, who's also grieving. When an older version of himself shows up, he's drawn into an adventure that gives him the chance to go back in time and repair those relationships. But that adventure is quite dangerous, and while it allows the child to escape bullying kids who tease and punch him, it also puts his life in jeopardy repeatedly. Multiple deadly fights with futuristic soldiers involve weapons used to kill by shooting, stabbing (one bloody wound is treated), disintegrating, electrocuting, and beating. A tween attacks soldiers with a video game-like drone system. Car chases result in vehicles being shot at, flipped over, and exploded. A man jokes about wanting to drown an annoying kid. There's also a lot of language ("s--t," partial "motherf----r," "ass," "a--hole," "goddammit," "bitch," and more). Expect to see kissing, sexual innuendo, and drinking, too. Underlying the action are positive messages about the importance of family, the value of communicating genuine emotions, and the benefits of "being a nerd." To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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Potentially great movie to watch with kids Fails due to crude actor!

Not bad movie, pity about language, what's the story.

Left home alone one evening while his widowed mother ( Jennifer Garner ) goes out on a date, Young Adam (Walker Scobell) discovers a wounded man on his property at the start of THE ADAM PROJECT. The man ( Ryan Reynolds ) turns out to be an older version of himself, and he eventually explains that he has traveled back in time to discover how his wife ( Zoe Saldana ) was killed, and maybe save her. Time travel is possible thanks to technology initially created by Adam's dad ( Mark Ruffalo ) but put to nefarious use by his business partner, Maya Sorian ( Catherine Keener ). Big Adam has been followed back in time by Sorian and her robot-like soldiers, putting his life -- and that of his younger self -- in jeopardy.

Is It Any Good?

The real surprise in this fun, layered, time-traveling action mystery is the tenderness with which family relationships and sentiments are handled. The Adam Project gives its characters the opportunity to go back in time to right misdirected relationships and fix missed chances to fully express their feelings for each other. While the concept of time travel is nothing new (Young Adam's blue puffy vest could be a direct nod to Back to the Future's Marty McFly), the way it's handled here as a device for a more intimate character study is compelling. An especially moving scene is when Big Adam encounters his mom in a bar and helps her understand her son's feelings, as well as her own.

The action scenes and visual effects are of course well done (though the de-aging of Keener is a little creepy), and they're set to classic rock and choreographed with character-revealing dialogues. A memorable example is when Young Adam repeats Big Adam's condescending tough-guy advice back to him when the latter is in a vulnerable position. The actors here are cast to type: Reynolds as a wise-cracking reluctant hero, Garner as a mom, Saldana as a brave action hero, and Ruffalo as a scruffy sage. The discovery is Walker Scobell as Young Adam. He manages to match Reynolds' sarcasm, smarts, and knowing looks, rather than the other way around, acting that was necessary to make their oneness as versions of the same character believable. While the setting doesn't play a huge role, the lush forest right outside Adam's house is magical and vaguely reminiscent of scenes from E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial .

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about the two versions of Adam in The Adam Project . How are they alike and different? What do they learn from each other? What would you say to a younger version of yourself, given the chance?

What is the world of 2050 like, judging by the descriptions given by characters who have traveled back to 2022? What do you envision the future to look like?

How does this film weave action, drama, fantasy, and comedy together? What genre would you call the movie, if you had to pick just one?

Movie Details

On DVD or streaming : March 11, 2022
Cast : Ryan Reynolds , Walker Scobell , Mark Ruffalo
Director : Shawn Levy
Studio : Netflix
Genre : Fantasy
Topics : STEM , Magic and Fantasy , Adventures
Run time : 106 minutes
MPAA rating : PG-13
MPAA explanation : violence/action, language and suggestive references
Award : Common Sense Selection
Last updated : February 17, 2023

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The Adam Project: Plot And Ending Explained (Timeline Diagram)

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The Adam Project is a 2022 time-travel action film directed by Shawn Levy. The story is centred on a man who travels back in time and accidentally lands in the wrong year and runs into his younger self; the two team up to save the future. The time travel logic in the film is all over the place, but the witty humour keeps the film interesting. The film has a big cast with Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldaña, Mark Ruffalo and Catherine Keener. Walker Scobell has done a wonderful job as young Adam. Jennifer and Mark paired up after 13 Going On 30 after 18 years, much like in the film. Here’s the plot and ending of The Adam Project explained; spoilers ahead.

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Here are links to the key aspects of the movie:

– Time Travel Rules: What Is Fixed Time?
– Timeline Diagram
– How Did The Dad Die
– Plot Explained
– Timeline-1: Who is Sorian? What does she want?
– Timeline-2: What Happened To Laura?
– Timeline-3: Why does Adam steal that jet?
– Timeline-4: The Adam Project Finale
– Ending Explained
– Did Sorian kill the dad?

The Adam Project Time Travel Rules : What Is Fixed Time ?

Just as Deadpool calls it out in his movie, lazy writing appears to have followed Ryan into this movie for all the time travel concepts (but it is compensated with the witty dialogues). In The Adam Project, young Adam brings up a valid point – he asks if the old Adam remembers meeting himself decades ago. Old Adam doesn’t. Young Adam asks if old Adam is from the future of a Parallel Reality (like we saw in Avengers: Endgame ). Old Adam sushes him, saying he watches too many movies.

Old Adam then explains that every person at each biological age belongs to one time; this is called their Fixed Time . What does this mean? If a person is born in 2000, then that person is latched with the flow of time starting in the year 2000. When the person is 2 years old, their Fixed Time is the year 2002.

When Adam travels outside his Fixed Time, 2050, he has left his place at a quantum level . Until he returns to his Fixed Time, his memories will not be affected by the events in 2022. And this is why old Adam does not yet have any memories of having met himself when he was a young boy. However, when old Adam returns to his Fixed Time, his previous memories will be gone and replaced by an alternate set of memories corresponding to the altered events.

While this fictional theory is fresh, the film goes ahead and shoots itself in the groin with the Grandfather Paradox… repeatedly.

The Adam Project: Timeline Diagram

The Adam Project: How Did The Dad Die

The dad happens to die because of a car accident. A genuine accident that was not caused by Sorian or any other time traveller. And in all timelines in the film, the dad dies because of that same accident. The accident is not vital to the plot, but this seems to be a pressing question for everyone, so it was best to get it out of the way.

The Adam Project: Plot Explained

Timeline-1: who is sorian what does she want.

Sorian is the dad’s partner, and she is funding his research on wormholes. This research accidentally leads to the discovery of time travel. Timeline-1 is not shown in the movie. It appears that once the dad died, Sorian was sidelined, and political forces took control of the time device. Though she was the one who funded the project, she is left with nothing. So, at some time in the future in Timeline-1 (perhaps 2050), Sorian makes an illegal jump to 2018 to meet her younger self.

Like old Biff in Back To The Future II, old Sorian makes like a tree and gets out of there after giving her younger self enough stock tips to amass a fortune. She also explains how to keep complete control of the Time Program by eliminating any political obstacles. This information exchange makes way for an altered timeline, Timeline-2. Once old Sorian returns to her Fixed Time, her memories of a failed life are erased and replaced with ones where she is all-powerful. This timeline is the one we see at the movie’s beginning.

Timeline-2: What Happened To Laura?

In 2050, Laura, who works in the Time Program, notices a log entry of Sorian’s jet returning from 2018, but no jet ever left to 2018. To investigate, Laura goes back to 2018 to dig deeper. Sorian plants an altitude bomb on Laura’s jet. But the bomb goes off after Laura reaches 2018, and she manages to eject safely. Laura is trapped in the past without her jet and lives her life out, hoping and waiting that Adam will come looking for her one day. In 2050, Sorien announces that Laura died in an accident during her re-entry.

Timeline-3: Why does Adam steal that jet?

Old Adam smells something fishy about Laura’s death and steals a jump jet to go back to 2018 and look for her. Unfortunately, he’s shot in the process and enters the wrong time coordinates, and lands up in 2022. He goes over to the only place he remembers, his old home. He confides in young Adam and dresses his wounds. Old Adam’s meddling with the past causes a new timeline, Timeline-3.

Sorian travels to 2022 with a team and arrests old Adam. Laura, who’s been living in the past from 2018 to 2022, has constantly been scanning for old Adam’s arrival. She shows up and helps take down Sorian’s men; they make a run for it. Laura explains that the only way they can end the time chaos is if old Adam went back to 2018 and stopped time travel from being invented. Bang! – that’s the sound of the film shooting itself with the Grandfather Paradox. Old Adam doesn’t like this idea because if they change the stream of time, he and Laura will not meet.

What is the Echo that Laura talks about?

Laura’s theory is that even if the time stream is altered and everyone’s memories are replaced with new ones, an echo of the earlier memories will remain. So she theorizes that old Adam and Laura will meet and fall in love even in the new timeline because they will feel that inexplicable connection . Sending the Adams away, Laura takes on Sorien’s team and is killed.

The jet is meshed with old Adam’s DNA, and it will not start because it senses his injury. So, old Adam needs young Adam to be on the jet till they get to an appropriate altitude to fire up the wormhole. Because the plan is to find their dad, young Adam agrees to travel to 2018 with old Adam.

Timeline-4: The Adam Project Finale

The two Adams travel back to 2018 and meet their dad and explain that his accidental invention of the time machine results in his partner, Sorian, creating a horrendous future. Old Adam explains the importance of destroying the device that will eventually give birth to the time machine.

Old Sorien follows the Adams to 2018 and meets young Sorien to warn her that the Adams are trying to stop her from achieving her greatness. We need to understand that Timeline-3 is a branch of Timeline-2 and not Timeline-1 (see the diagram). Two months back, Young Sorien has already been met by an Old Sorien from Timeline-1 who has given her enough intel to alter her life. After that, Timeline-2 was born, and old Soren’s memories were replaced with an evil, successful life. In this scene, old Sorien is from Timeline-2, and that is why she can’t remember travelling to meet young Sorien.

The flaw in the writing in this scene is that old Sorien somehow clearly remembers events from Timeline-1, which is not possible. At best, she could have echoes, but not be able to recollect precisely about having a lonely life. Those memories should have been erased for her.

Destroying The Time Device

The two Adams, with the help of their dad, fight off Sorien’s men. Oddly, as old Adam and daddy enter the building, they leave young Adam out in the open and Sorien’s men grab him (duh!). Dad explains that they need to destroy the diamond-hard neuromorphic processor (a fancy hard drive). Before they can, old and young Sorien show up with young Adam held hostage. Young Adam shoves the gun away, and the stray bullet hits the electromagnet’s seal.

Young Sorien is not yet evil and is unable to shoot dad and take the hard drive. Old Sorien asks her younger self to step aside, and she fires at dad. Unfortunately, the electromagnet alters the bullet’s path and kills young Sorien instead. This event erases Old-Sorien from existence in this timeline, and she disappears. Bang! – Grandfather Paradox.

The two Adams and their dad walk away, knowing time travel will never be invented. Bang! The ripple effect from the altered time stream, for some bizarre reason, gives the Adams a little extra wind-down time with their dad. Dad refuses to gain knowledge of his death, and the three play catch instead. In a short while, the Adams are gone.

Here’s a thought on Laura. Remember she mentions that she was in 2018 waiting for Adam. Not sure why she wasn’t written into the climax. Given Laura was present in 2018 and keeping an eye out for Adam, it would have made sense if she located and joined him for the finale.

The Adam Project: Ending Explained

The ending of The Adam Project shows us that a new timeline created by the two Adams where the time machine is not invented. Adam’s dad however dies in the accident, and echoes stay with the people in this timeline. Eventually, in 2022, young Adam feels like giving his mom a tight hug as requested by his older self. And in the future, old Adam and Laura meet in a different class. Fate seems to have recreated the same scenario of Laura walking into the wrong class and running into Adam, who offers to walk with her. The two have an inexplicable feeling ( echo ) for one another and begin their happy lives together.

Did Sorian kill the dad?

No, Sorian didn’t kill the dad. Though the film trivializes the accident, a valid question here would be, how do the Adams know for sure that the car crash was not accomplished on purpose by Sorian? In the climax, they destroy the time machine and young Sorian is killed. Despite this, the dad is dead in the final timeline, Timeline -4. And that’s how we know for sure that no one plotted the dad’s death.

And that’s that. How did you like the plot and ending of The Adam Project? Liked it? Hated it? Leave your thoughts about the film in the comments below.

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After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self for a mission to save the future.
Adam Reed, age 12 and still grieving his father's sudden death the year before, walks into his garage one night to find a wounded pilot hiding there. This mysterious pilot turns out to be the older version of himself from the future, where time travel is in its infancy. He has risked everything to come back in time on a secret mission. Together they must embark on an adventure into the past to find their father, set things right, and save the world. As the three work together, both young and grown Adam come to terms with the loss of their father and have a chance to heal the wounds that have shaped them. Adding to the challenge of the mission, the two Adams discover that they really don't like each other much, and if they are to save the world, first they need to figure out how to get along.
In 2050, a time-traveling pilot fights another jet and is wounded, and he jumps to 2022. In 2022, the twelve-year-old boy Adam Reed lives with his mother Ellie and misses his beloved father, the scientist Louis Reed, who has recently died. While his mother is working, Adam finds the pilot in the garage and soon he learns that the pilot is himself in 2050. Further, he intended to jump to 2018 to save his wife, Laura, who apparently died while investigating a confidential subject. The old Adam needs Adam to use his DNA to activate his jet plane since he is wounded, but is located by his enemies, Maya Sorian and Christos. Out of the blue, they are saved by Laura, and flee to a house by the sea. She tells them that they must return to 2018 to meet Louis Reed and destroy his experimental time machine since Maya is returning to 2018 to provide information to herself to dominate the world in the future. The problem is that Maya Sorian is Louis' sponsor, partner and friend, and they have to convince him that she is a menace to the world. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In a dystopian 2050, fighter pilot Adam Reed (Ryan Reynolds) steals his time jet and escapes through time on a rescue mission to 2018. However, he accidentally crash-lands in 2022 instead where Adam meets his 12-year-old self (Walker Scobell) who is struggling with the recent death of their father Louis (Mark Ruffalo) (Adam's father and a brilliant quantum physicist who wrote the algorithm necessary for controlled time travel) in a car accident. Ellie Reed (Jennifer Garner), Adam's mother is alive in 2022. Adam12 gets bullied at school and when he stands up to them, he is suspended for instigating a fight. Ellie was on a date the night when Adam crash landed into 2022. Adam reveals to Adam12, that he is the same guy from the future. Adam reluctantly enlists his younger self's help to repair his jet (The future tech is coded to the user's DNA. Since Adam is injured, the jet wont clear him to fly or repair it because all his vitals are haywire). Adam sets the jet on self repair mode and tucks in for the night in the garage. The next day Ellie leaves for work. Adam tells Adam12 that he treats his mother badly and regrets it for the rest of his life. They go to a drug store to get supplies. Adam tries to get Adam12 to stand up to the bullies, but Adam12 gets beaten down again. Finally Adam takes on the bully and tells him to Adam12 alone. Adam meets Ellie at a bar (as a stranger eves-dropping on her conversation with the bartender) and tells her that she is doing nothing wrong with Adam12. He advises her to be more vulnerable and let Adam12 know that she is also hurting from the death of her husband. Adam reveals that he is looking for his wife, Laura (Zoe Saldaña), who was supposedly killed in a plane crash while on a time travel mission to 2018. They changed the jump logs and Adam never knew what she was chasing in 2018. Adam is being chased by Maya Sorian (Catherine Keener), the leader of the dystopian world and her lieutenant Christos (Alex Mallari Jr.) who attempt to apprehend Adam in 2022 and take him back to 2050. In 2018, Maya was working for Louis. As Maya and Christos attack Adam, The Adams are rescued by Laura who reveals that she had escaped an assassination attempt on her (after she analyzed the jump logs and saw an entry of a plane coming back from 2018, when nobody ever flew to 2018) and was left stranded in the past (for the last 4 yrs). Laura had learned that Sorian had traveled back in time and altered the past in order to give herself control of time travel and the future. Nov 2018 was when Louis developed the Magnetic particle accelerator, the first step towards time travel. Laura urges Adam to travel back to 2018 and destroy time travel, which was created by his father Louis, in order to set things right and save the future. Adam is afraid that if changes the past, Adam and Laura may never meet in the future. Sorian attacks and Laura sacrifices herself so that the two Adams can escape. Chased by Sorian and with only enough power left for one time jump, Adam and his younger self jump back to 2018. In 2018, the two Adams attempt to enlist Louis' help, but he refuses out of concern for the scientific impact on the time-stream. Adam argues that Maya already impacted the time-stream and took control of the future of human destiny. When Louis refuse to relent, Adam tells him to care for his son, rather than caring for the universe all the time. Meanwhile Future Sorian travels to 2018 and meets her younger self. She had traveled to 2018 before to alter the time stream in cahoots with her younger self. Future Sorian reveals that Adam from the future is also in 2018 and is determined to eradicating the technology that enables time travel. Adam12 confronts his future self about his bitterness and anger and realizes that the source of it is his lingering pain over their father's death & nothing else. As the two launch an attack to destroy Louis' particle accelerator, Louis changes his mind and joins the mission, having them instead retrieve the hard drive containing the only copy of his algorithm that enables time travel (by stabilizing the wormholes). Adam and Louis go down to the basement where the accelerator is housed, while Adam12 guards the perimeter with drones. Adam12 is captured by Sorian from the future. She brings Adam12 to the basement to negotiate with Adam and Louis. A battle erupts between the Adams, Louis, Sorian, her younger self, Sorian's soldiers and Christos, resulting in the particle accelerator overloading. Sorian attempts to shoot Louis with an armor-piercing bullet, but the magnetic field of the accelerator instead diverts the round, causing it to kill the younger Sorian, erasing the future Sorian from existence as the Reeds flee. With time travel destroyed and the future set right, Louis chooses not to learn of his own fate and enjoys a game of catch with both versions of his son before the Adams are returned to their own times. In 2022, Adam12 lets go of his bitterness and anger and reconciles with his mother whom he has been distant with ever since Louis' death. Years later, a much happier adult Adam meets Laura for the first time in a situation mirroring their first meeting in the original time-line.

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We break down the ending of The Adam Project

The Adam Project ending somehow manages to pack in both sci-fi mayhem and heart-warming family moments that'll bring a tear to your eye.

The film focuses on Ryan Reynolds' titular Adam, who travels back in time on the trail of his missing wife, Laura (Zoe Saldaña). In the past, he meets his younger self (Walker Scobell), and both Adams end up going back in time again – where they encounter their late father, Louis (Mark Ruffalo).

In all the action and trips through time, it's easy to lose track of exactly what is going on. But that's where we come in. We've grouped together the most burning questions you're likely to have about the movie's finale, from how exactly time travel works in the film to the evil plans Maya Sorian (Catherine Keener) has up her sleeve. So, to get all your questions on The Adam Project ending answered, scroll on – and, of course, major spoilers ahead.

The Adam Project ending explained

The Adam Project picks up with adult Adam – Big Adam – travelling back in time to 2022. That's an accidental destination, though: he was aiming for 2018, because he's on the hunt for his missing wife Laura. In 2022, he meets his younger self (Young Adam) and they're soon joined by Laura, who gets them out of a tight spot fighting against some armed forces from the future who are after Big Adam.

Laura takes the Adams to her cabin, where she's been staying for the last four years. She was stranded in 2018 after travelling back to investigate an anomaly in the time jet records, where someone returned from 2018 with no trace of anyone ever going back. That person turns out to be Maya Sorian, the business partner of Adam's father Louis. She went back in time to give her younger self some tips to amass her wealth and gain control of time travel in the future, and, because she altered the time stream, the trip doesn't show up in the records. Sorian then tries to kill Laura in 2018, but doesn't succeed, so Laura ends up stuck in the past.

Sorian's forces soon arrive to the cabin, and Laura sends both Adams away. Big Adam is distraught, but Laura tells him they'll find each other again. She stays behind and stages her last stand – and this time Sorian really does kill her as the Adams escape together.

Both Adams then travel back to 2018 to find Louis, who had theorized that time travel via wormholes would be possible, and created a magnetic particle accelerator he called the Adam Project as part of his work. The Adams try to enlist Louis' help, but he's reluctant to get involved because doing so would mess with time, which is something he's very much against doing.

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Louis eventually decides to join them after a chat with their mother Ellie (Jennifer Garner), though, and tells Big Adam that his plan to destroy the magnetic particle accelerator won't work – he needs to take out ISPCA (that's Infinitely Shifting Plasma Containing Algorithm). Louis designed the algorithm to stabilise the wormholes, and it's this equation that makes time travel possible. The algorithm exists on a hard drive in the accelerator, which they need to destroy to stop time travel from being invented.

Sorian isn't going to go quietly, though, and both adult and younger Sorian arrive, with Young Adam as the older Sorian's hostage. As Young Adam escapes her, a bullet breaks the protective casing around the accelerator, and all hell breaks loose as every magnetic object in the area is sucked towards the machine.

Eventually, the Adams and Louis end up held at gunpoint by Sorian. She fires at Louis, but the bullet is dragged into the accelerator because of its magnetic core. On its way, it drives straight through Younger Sorian, fatally wounding her, and so killing Older Sorian too.

The Adams and Louis then escape before the accelerator is completely sealed off, and head back home, their work complete. But, when both Adams try to warn their father of his impending death, Louis doesn't want to hear it, as no one has a right to change the future. The trio have a very emotional group hug after Louis tells Big Adam how much he loves him, and then Louis reassures Young Adam that he'll be okay. The three of them head outside for a game of catch, before both Adams are returned to their fixed time – so 2022 for Young Adam, and 2050 for Big Adam.

Back where they belong, Young Adam hugs his mother, rectifying one of his older counterpart's biggest regrets. Big Adam, meanwhile, sees Laura for the first time in an echo of their original meeting, meaning the couple found each other again after all.

What is the Adam Project?

Not just the title of the movie, the Adam Project refers to the magnetic particle accelerator that wreaks havoc at the end of the film, which is part of Louis' work that eventually leads to the creation of time travel. As he explains to both Adams, Louis theorized that "with a powerful enough pulse, we could generate utilitarian wormholes in space." In simple terms, that basically means portals that take you from one point in time to another.

As for why Big Adam doesn't remember the events of the film (since he meets his younger self in the past, he should technically have those memories in the future), it's explained that, when a person returns to their fixed time, their memories reconcile with whatever happened in the past. So, Big Adam will remember his jaunt to the past only when he returns to the future at the end of the movie.

But what exactly is a person's fixed time? Well, that's also explained. According to Big Adam, a person only belongs in one place in time on a quantum level. So, everyone has an anchor point on the timeline where they should be – as seen at the end, where both Adams shift back to where they belong once time travel is destroyed.

Is there a multiverse in The Adam Project?

There is not a multiverse in The Adam Project. Young Adam asks his older counterpart whether such a thing exists, and is swiftly shot down with "my god, we watched too many movies." As explained above, time travel works via wormholes and quantum fixed time – which doesn't sound that much stranger than a multiverse, really.

When is The Adam Project set?

This is a weird one, because The Adam Project is set across three different time periods – the film starts off in 2050 with Big Adam trying to escape with a stolen plane. He accidentally crashes into 2022, which is where he meets Young Adam. Together, both Adams travel back again to 2018 to meet their father, which is where (or when) the final showdown with Sorian takes place.

From there, both Adams are returned to the correct time period – though Big Adam is shown meeting Laura again in the future, which should technically be the past if he's returned to 2050. Did he arrive a few years earlier than he should have, or is his fixed time somehow earlier than 2050? The answer is unclear, but it's safe to say Big Adam is very much in the future by then.

Why does Adam travel back in time? What is wrong with the future?

Ryan Reynolds and Zoe Saldana in The Adam Project

Big Adam travels back in time to find his wife, Laura. She's missing somewhere in the past, though the official explanation is that her jet broke up on re-entry. Adam knows this isn't true, though, so sets off in search of her, and discovers that Sorian has been meddling with time.

As for the future, Big Adam tells Young Adam that 2050 is The Terminator on a good day – so a disaster, basically. What exactly is wrong with the future is left to our imagination, though, but it's clear that Sorian is using time travel for her own nefarious purposes. As Big Adam explains, after Louis died, Sorian got rich off his technology, "bought the right people," and took exclusive control over time – and she went back to 2018 to give herself some tips to make it all possible.

Why does Adam end up in 2022?

Big Adam's arrival in 2022 is an accident – he was aiming for 2018, which is where Laura vanished. He goes back again to 2018 with Young Adam in tow to find their father.

What happens to Zoe Saldaña's Laura?

Laura gets stuck in 2018 after travelling back after a time jet is shown to have returned from that year in the flight logs, but there's no record of anyone ever going back in the first place. This turns out to be Sorian's trip to the past, which doesn't show up in those records because she changed the time stream, thereby altering the future the jet left from. Sorian sabotages Laura's plane, but she survives, and waits it out for four long years until she can reunite with Adam.

The reunion is short-lived, though, because Sorian and her backup soon arrive to the cabin Laura has been hiding in. Laura keeps them occupied while the Adams escape in their jet, bound for 2018. Laura makes a defiant last stand, but is killed by Sorian after the Adams get away.

Before Big Adam leaves, though, Laura tells him that she knows he'll find her again, so all hope is not lost.

Do Laura and Adam reunite in the future?

After Laura is killed in 2022, her future love story with Big Adam is thrown into jeopardy. Luckily, her belief that they'd find each other proves true. At the end of the film, we see the couple meet again at a lecture Laura has mistakenly arrived to late, which is how they first met in the original timeline. That means their love story should be back on track. Yay for a happy ending!

Who killed Louis and does he survive in the end?

Mark Ruffalo and Walker Scobell in The Adam Project

You'd be forgiven for thinking Sorian might have arranged to have Louis killed as part of her big plans to take control of time travel. That theory is swiftly shot down by the fact that stopping Sorian and killing her in the past doesn't seem to have spared Louis' life, though.

In fact, the Adams try to warn their father of his impending death, but he doesn't want to hear about it because no one – not even them – has the right to change the future. Tragically, it looks like his death really is just a random accident that's unavoidable if the trio want to stop meddling with time.

What is Sorian's plan?

Laura guesses that Sorian travelled back to 2018, when the magnetic particle accelerator went live, to give her past self some tips about the future and put herself in the position of being powerful enough to control time travel. When Sorian travels back to see herself in the past for the second time, as seen in the movie, she also makes reference to the government potentially taking her company from her – and says she fixed a future where she'd been forgotten.

Laura notices the anomaly in the flight records caused by Sorian's trip and goes back to investigate. She's almost killed for her efforts, then gets stranded in the past – and does get killed by Sorian for real while helping the Adams escape.

But, Sorian fails to prevent the Adams from destroying time travel at the source, so all her schemes are for nothing in the end.

How do Adam and Louis defeat Sorian?

Big Adam, Young Adam, and Louis team up to take on Sorian and stop her plans. They go to the company headquarters to destroy the magnetic particle accelerator, with Big Adam and Louis heading inside, while Young Adam uses some remote tech outside to take on the bad guys.

But, Sorian ends up getting hold of Young Adam, and threatens his life to stop Louis and Big Adam from shutting down the accelerator and taking the algorithm that makes time travel possible. Young Adam knocks the gun away, though, and the bullet hits the accelerator – and that's when chaos ensues.

Everything magnetic starts getting sucked towards the machine, and a fight breaks out. In the end, both Sorians end up squaring off with both Adams and Louis at gunpoint. Older Sorian pulls the trigger, but she forgets a crucial detail: the broken accelerator, and the bullet's magnetic core. The bullet is pulled towards the machine, and the path is straight through Younger Sorian. This kills her, which means her older self dies too. The perils of time travel…

Why do both Adams go back to their own timeline?

Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, and Walker Scobell in The Adam Project

The jump back to 2018 is the last trip through time that both Adams are able to make in their jet, but both of them are transported back where they belong anyway. That's because time travel was destroyed in the past – so both of them go back to their fixed times, since they now technically never had the capability to time travel in the first place.

How do the Adams have time to play catch with Louis?

There really isn't a solid answer to why both Adams don't immediately return to the correct timeline, especially as, since time travel is destroyed in the past, they shouldn't be there at all, because how did they travel back in the first place? "It probably takes a while for 30 years of changed time to sort itself out," Big Adam says, which is as good an explanation as any.

The catch scene is a sweet call back to Young Adam reminding Big Adam that their dad always made time to play catch with them, and we probably shouldn't think about it too hard beyond how heart warming the moment is after all the trouble the trio have been through. Let's leave it at "aww."

The Adam Project is streaming on Netflix now. If you're all caught up, check out our guide to the best Netflix movies to plan your next movie marathon, and see our breakdown of how time travel works in The Adam Project for another deep dive on the film.

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The Adam Project ending explained on Netflix: Does Adam reunite with Laura?

Let's dig into that emotional finale.

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A lot of people have watched the time-travelling sci-fi adventure that delivers thrills and big emotion, before ending on an ambiguous note that'll leave you with a major question as the credits roll.

The Adam Project sees Reynolds play Adam who accidentally crashes in 2022 and reluctantly teams up with his younger self (Walker Scobell), as well as his late father Louis (Mark Ruffalo), to continue his mission to find his wife Laura (Zoe Saldaña) and save the future.

We're about to delve into the movie's ending and what director Shawn Levy has had to say about a potential sequel, so there will be major spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the movie yet.

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The Adam Project ending explained

The movie kicks off with Adam in 2050 after he's stolen a time jet and before his pursuers can catch up with him, he goes through a wormhole and crash-lands in 2022. His intention was to get to 2018 and he's wounded, so he seeks refuge in his old home.

There, he meets his younger self and before you can ask about paradoxes and why he would never remember seeing his older self, Adam has the answer: "The prevailing wisdom is that when I go back to my fixed time, my memory, our memories, they reform, they reconcile. But not while I'm here."

So when (or if) he gets back to 2050, he won't remember meeting his younger self if they do anything to change the future. It's essentially a new timeline from the moment they changed the future, and his memories will adapt to that timeline.

Adam was on a mission to 2018 to find Laura, who went missing after a jump to 2018 and while the official story was that her jet "broke up on re-entry", Adam doesn't believe it. Since he's injured though, his time jet (which is coded to his DNA) won't clear him to fly to allow him to go back to 2018.

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Luckily, young Adam has his DNA and can trick the jet to let him in. Before he gets the chance though, Maya Sorian (Catherine Keener) – who created time travel along with Adam's father Louis – arrives in 2022 with a bunch of goons to take Adam back to his fixed time.

Laura surprisingly shows up in time to save Adam and the three of them escape. She tells Adam that she went back to 2018 to investigate "something strange" in the jump logs. A time jet supposedly returned from 2018, but there was no evidence a jet ever left for 2018 in the first place – meaning that somebody went back and altered the future.

It was Maya who did it as she went back to November 2018 to tell her younger self stock tips to amass a fortune. When she found out Laura was on to her, Maya planted an altitude bomb on Laura's jet, but she managed to eject in time.

Without a time jet, Laura was stranded in 2018 and she just had to wait four years for Adam to arrive. She urges him to go back to 2018 to stop time-travel ever being invented, which would mean Maya never went back either. (It's implied that in 2050, the world is in disrepair as a result of Maya's selfish actions, backing companies bad for the environment.)

If Adam does change the past, though, it would also mean he never met Laura, as they met in the future. Laura is convinced they'd find each other again: "Every moment we ever had will always have happened. Even if we correct the time stream, somewhere in us will be the echo of this one and we will find each other."

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Adam reluctantly agrees and since he still can't operate his time jet, young Adam needs to come along for the ride. Laura can't go with them as the time jet won't fly with somebody else's DNA in it, so she stays behind to hold off Maya and her goons.

The two Adams manage to narrowly escape Maya again, but Maya ends up killing Laura before Maya also heads back to 2018 to stop the Adams.

Adam and young Adam reunite with their father Louis in 2018, but struggle to convince him to destroy the Adam Project. It only went live four weeks ago and was intended to create "utilitarian wormholes in space", but would go on to be the machine that made time-travel possible.

Louis doesn't think they should be messing with the future, so refuses to help his son. He doesn't even want them to tell him anything about what happens to him, which young Adam wants to do as Louis dies a couple of years later.

Adam heads to Sorian Technologies anyway to blow up the Adam Project, but Maya already has some goons waiting for him as she warned her younger self. Fortunately, Louis turns up just in time to save both Adams and tells him how to really stop time-travel from being invented.

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Louis came up with ISPCA – Infinitely Shifting Plasma Containing Algorithm – which stabilises any wormholes, allowing time-travel to happen. If they just destroy the machine, Maya can build it again. However, if they take the algorithm (which is on a device inserted in the machine), which he's never written down, time travel can't be invented.

During an explosive confrontation, Louis manages to take the algorithm and Maya accidentally shoots her younger self, killing both versions of Maya. The core of the Adam Project is breached and the machine blows up, but both Adams and Louis manage to make it out alive.

Both Adams don't immediately go back to their own times as Adam surmises it "probably takes a while for 30 years of changed time to sort itself out". Louis reveals that from the moment he saw them, he knew he was dead in their time, but still doesn't want to know as "no one has the right to change the future".

(You might think this is hypocritical, but technically, all they really did was stop Maya from changing the future. So they've sort of reset that darker future, just without time-travel existing.)

The three of them manage to play one final game of catch at their house, and Adam tells his younger self to hug his mother if there's an "echo" of this moment in his memory. When young Adam returns to 2018, he remembers to do just that showing that Laura was right in her theory.

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We then see Adam back in the future and he meets Laura again. The same meet-cute plays out that he described earlier in the movie as Laura ends up in the wrong classroom, but he offers to walk her to the right one.

The real question is whether Adam or Laura remembers their past life as a married couple in this altered future. One key bit of dialogue gives us hope that Adam does remember though as when Laura says she's lost, he replies: "Not any more, I found you."

We want to be positive and optimistic, so we think that additional "I found you" means that the echo Laura spoke about is there, and they'll live happily ever after.

Don't expect a sequel to come along to answer the question either, even though Netflix asked director Shawn Levy about a potential sequel after seeing an early cut.

"Ryan and I talked about it and we both said, 'You know what? This thing is exactly what we set out to make, and I think we're just going to leave this here'," Levy told IndieWire .

"There was never pressure to leave it more open ended, but I suppose, gun to my head, I could come up with sequel ideas for The Adam Project . I'm not currently inclined to pursue those, because this movie resolves itself with exactly the feeling that I wanted, which is that combination of warmth and tears, but also hope."

The Adam Project is out now on Netflix.

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‘The Adam Project’ is a sci-fi film based on Adam (Ryan Reynolds), who returns in time from 2050 to correct certain events that affected his timeline. It is now streaming on Netflix.

Warning: This article contains heavy spoilers

Plot summary

In 2050, Adam, a fighter pilot, is being chased by futuristic space ships. Having been wounded by someone, he desperately opens up a wormhole and escapes back in time to 2022.

In this time period, a younger Adam (Walker Scobell) is struggling to come to grips with the demise of his father, Louis Reed (Mark Ruffalo), in an accident one year ago. He keeps acting like a jerk with his mother, Ellie Reed (Jennifer Garner).

He comes across the wounded Adam and, after initial concern, realises that he is the same; an older version of him.

Old Adam informs him that he had to escape his own timeline in order to protect himself. His wife, Laura (Zoe Saldana) was last seen returning to 2018 and hasn’t been traced since.

His original plan was to return in time to 2018 but accidentally landed in 2022. He shows young Adam his spaceship, which Old Adam is unable to activate with DNA matching due to injury, but young Adam can.

Old Adam tells him that he needs to travel to 2018 before their father’s old business partner, Maya Sorian (Catherine Keener) finds him.

He reveals that in his timeline, Sorian has full control over time. She and Louis were the ones to invent time travel, and after his death, she was the sole owner.

They are attacked by Sorian and her henchmen, but Laura arrives just in time and saves thme. As they’re chased, they come up with a plan.

Laura will stay back and distract Sorian, while the two Adams can return in time to 2018 and change whatever happened.

Sorian finds Laura and kills her. She is hot on the Adams’ heels, however, they manage to travel back in time.

If you have any doubts about the ending, here’s a full breakdown.

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Louis is taking a class in 2018. The old Adam shows up as a student, and, after class, Louis is able to recognise him as his own son.

He even meets the young Adam, and while initially surprised, he is debriefed about the situation in the future and how Sorian returned to the past to advise the younger version of herself on buying the right shares, making her unstoppable in the future.

The young Adam is overjoyed at the chance of meeting his father again, while the old Adam seems a bit disgruntled and believes that Louis did not give them enough time during childhood.

Fully aware of the consequences of meddling with the future, Louis tells them he won’t be a part of their plan and they need to return to their respective timelines.

Clearly affected by the words of the old Adam, he returns home to ask his wife if he has been a bad father and husband.

She responds that while he isn’t there a lot of the time, it doesn’t make him a bad person. The fact that whenever he is available, he is fully there, is enough for them.

The young Adam also confronts Old Adam and claims that he shut down his emotions for his father because he died. He forgot how, no matter how tired, Louis was always fully there when he played catch with Adam.

Protect the timeline

The two Adams go to the base where Louis and Maya are experimenting with the magnetic reactor named ‘The Adam Project’ that results in the invention of time travel.

While the old Adam attempts to break in, the young Adam has his back with a futuristic gaming-style weapon.

Just when the old Adam is about to be taken out, Louis arrives and saves him by crashing his car into the assailant.

Louis and Adam go inside and remove the hard drive to stop the machine. However, the young and old Sorian arrive with the young Adam as a hostage.

To make matters worse, one of the bullets hits the reactor’s glass and it shatters, causing it to go haywire.

Just as the old Sorian is about to kill Louis with a bullet, it instead gets sucked toward the magnetic reactor and, with the young Sorian in its way, kills her instead, putting an end to both versions of her.

Louis tells the two Adams that he knew the core of the bullet was metallic and it sometimes pays off to be the nerd. The three safely escape the building.

A new future

In an absolute tearjerker moment, Louis tells both his kids that he loves them no matter what and he never meant to upset them.

With the future now fixed, the two Adams could disappear at any moment. Before that happens, the three go to the house and play catch together for one last time. When Louis picks up the ball after a loose throw, the two have vanished.

With the timeline now corrected, the two Adams still show signs of subconsciously remembering their adventure.

The young Adam remembers to hug his mother, who the old Adam told him was also suffering and he needed to appreciate her more.

In the end, the old Adam and Laura meet in a class, just as they originally did, and Adam tells her he “found her”, just as he had claimed he would back in 2022 before they separated.

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Ryan Reynolds seems to be settling in nicely in what feels like a new home at Netflix thanks to the success of his latest feature, "The Adam Project." The family-friendly sci-fi adventure landed the third biggest opening weekend in the streaming platform's history (via The Hollywood Reporter ). Its 92.4 million viewing hours in its opening weekend trails only the Adam McKay-directed satirical star-studded affair, "Don't Look Up" and the other recent Reynolds-Netflix action team-up flick, "Red Notice," whose numbers are likely boosted by the presence of co-stars Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot.

"The Adam Project" follows Adam (Reynolds) as he travels back in time from 2050 to stop the invention of time travel and save the world from becoming a dystopian version of itself. There's only one problem: He doesn't make it back to 2018, the year when his dad, who also happens to be the mind behind time travel, is still alive. Instead, he crash-lands in 2022, where he's forced to team with the younger version of himself (Walker Scobell) so they can skip back an additional three years and make contact with their father.

While the storyline of "The Adam Project" seems pretty straightforward, this new outing from Reynolds creates somewhat confusing time travel rules that don't quite gel with other versions of time travel in movies. Multiple characters appear side-by-side as more than one version of themselves. Deceased characters show up at different points even though earlier versions of themselves are wiped out of existence. Needless to say, this movie can be a bit hard to follow. But never fear: We have a timeline broken down to help you understand the chronological conundrum of "The Adam Project."

The 2010s give us a glimpse into Adam's home life

The relationship between Adam's parents, Ellie and Louis Reed (reunited "13 Going on 30" stars Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo), is the heart of the movie. Louis is the brains behind the concept of time travel in this fictional world, and Ellie is a nurturing force for her child as they deal with the loss of Louis following his death.

As Netflix's Tudum points out in their details breakdown of the chronology of "The Adam Project," Louis and Ellie welcome their baby boy Adam in 2010, evidenced mainly by the character's age in the later settings of the story; he's 12 when the movie introduces the Walker Scobell version of the character. Not much is known about his first decade of life other than a few references. Ryan Reynolds' adult Adam confirms that, when he is seven years old, he runs into a table, causing an injury to his chin that requires 12 stitches. This incident is used later on as a way for the older Adam to prove to his younger self that they are the same person.

In 2018, Louis comments to Ellie that he wonders if he shouldn't have built a video game for Adam. The game may have been instrumental in him becoming such a capable pilot as the gameplay looks eerily similar to the real-life flight mechanics of his ship later in life. Viewers also see a puppy version of Hawking, the dog young Adam cares for in 2022. While the action is still set in 2018, Louis makes a comment in response to two future versions of his son showing up and giving him insight into how his invention impacts the future. This interaction sparks his participation in the events that take place in the climax of the film.

The majority of The Adam Project takes place in 2018 and 2022

2018 is a pivotal year in "The Adam Project." It is the year older Adam tries to get to in order to prevent Maya Sorian (Catherine Keener), the person funding Louis Reed's research who eventually controls time travel and is the leader of the dystopian future, from manipulating time to allow her rise to power. It's also the year that older Adam's wife, Laura (Zoe Saldaña), is marooned when she starts getting close to the truth about Maya's rise to power. Like Adam, Laura is a time pilot — a detail later revealed to be integral to the couple's first meeting. Although she is believed to have perished on a mission in 2050, Adam believed her to be too talented of a pilot to have died in the way she was reported.

Adam's feelings are proven correct when Laura reveals herself as both Adams fight off Maya's henchmen in 2022 and she can explain what she's been doing while in hiding for the last four years. She convinces the duo to go destroy "The Adam Project" (the name Louis gives the magnetic particle accelerator that facilitates time travel) and covers their getaway, ultimately sacrificing herself in the process.

With Laura's help and young Adam's DNA, both Adams jump to 2018, recruit their father on their mission by convincing him that everything has gone wrong with his work on time travel. While Louis initially can't believe Maya would betray him knowing the consequences of changing the past, the presence of two versions of his son ultimately shows him how dire the situation is. The trio infiltrates Maya's HQ, coming face-to-face with the 2018 and 2050 versions of Maya. In an attempt to kill them, Maya shoots her younger self, erasing her future self and allowing the Reeds to complete their mission.

Adam's future impacts the past

When Adam is 10 years old in 2020, he loses his father to a car crash. He spends the following two years getting bullied for being too small for his age and suspended from school for having a smart mouth. He makes his mother's life infinitely more difficult, often not realizing the weight of some of the cruel things he says to his mother.

After his most recent suspension, young Adam crosses paths with a future version of himself after he crash-lands in 2022. The pair bond over their shared experience of losing their father, with the now 12-year-old Adam still grieving and the 40-year-old Adam still wrestling with the effects of burying those feelings under a shell of bitterness. While stuck in 2022, older Adam also has a heartwarming interaction with his mother (unbeknownst to her) and, in their discussion about the unruliness of teenage boys, offers her an apology masked as advice about young Adam's behavior.

Older Adam never reveals to younger Adam that he is arrested in 2027 for something that causes him to lose his college scholarship in his freshman year. While this is undoubtedly devastating, it ultimately leads him to join the Air Force and become the best pilot in the time-travel program. This also leads him on the path of another big moment in his future. Sometime in the 2030s, Adam meets his future wife, Laura, when she mistakenly walks into the wrong lecture hall. He guides her to where she is supposed to be and begins their future together. They build a love strong enough to convince him to steal a ship and break every time travel rule to save her in 2050.

Netflix's The Adam Project review roundup – here's what the critics say

Is Ryan Reynolds' sci-fi adventure a hit or miss?

Zoe Saldana and Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project

The Adam Project , Netflix' s new big-budget family adventure, makes its bow on the streamer this Friday (March 11) and the first reviews are in.

The film, which stars Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldaña, Jennifer Garner and Catherine Keener, is directed by Shawn Levy, who made Free Guy with Reynolds in 2021 and who executively produces Netflix's mammoth hit show Stranger Things .

One of the tentpoles on Netflix's gigantic 2022 movie slate , The Adam Project follows Adam Reed, a character played by both Reynolds and newcomer Walker Scobell. The older Reed is a time-traveling fighter pilot, who crash lands in the year 2022, where he meets his 12-year-old self as well as Garner and Ruffalo, who play his parents. Together, the two Adams set out on a mission to save the future.

With the review embargo lifting ahead of launch day, then, fans have the clearest idea yet of whether it's worth checking out. But, despite its literal and metaphorical star power, it's a mixed bag.

Do critics like The Adam Project?

Not really. It wouldn't be fair to say it's had a kicking, but the general response is pretty muted.

The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney summed it up best, calling the movie "too pedestrian to generate excitement" and questioning many of the casting choices. Indiewire's David Ehrlich wasn't keen either, saying it's an "...overly safe film that only feigns at its ambition. It feels less like a natural fit for Reynolds’ talents than an ill-fitting star vehicle for someone who’s never been less interested in stretching his limits." Ouch.

Empire's Jordan King liked it more than most, describing the sci-fi flick as "a throwback slice of escapism with plenty of heart", but he didn't feel compelled to give it more than three stars. Radio Times' Huw Fullerton struck the same tone, calling The Adam Project "...perfectly serviceable fare that will distract you from the world for an hour and 45 minutes." Not exactly a recommendation, is it?

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Variety's Own Gleiberman enjoyed the film, but qualified his praise, saying: "Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy are going to make much better movies than this one, but you can feel the tastiness of their combo even in a kinetic marshmallow." Finally, IGN's Ryan Leston bucked the trend by offering up a tonne of praise, he called the film "Back to the Future meets The Last Starfighter with a slew of wonderful performances." It's nice to someone enjoyed it.

When can I see The Adam Project?

If the reviews haven't put you off, The Adam Project will exclusively launch on Netflix worldwide on Friday, March 11.

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The Adam Project Movie Review & Summary: Tries Too Hard to Reinvent A Bloated Genre

The Adam Project will release on Netflix on 11 th March 2022. The Shawn Levy directed film has a run time of 1 hour and 46 minutes and is written by Jonathan Tropper, T. S. Nowlin, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin.

The Adam Project Cast

Ryan Reynolds as Adam Reed
Walker Scobell as Young Adam Reed
Zoe Saldaña as Laura
Catherine Keener as Maya Sorian

The Adam Project Plot

Adam Reed crash lands into 2022 and is now subjected to the people who were chasing him and his 2-year-old self. Knowing the stuff of future and meeting his past self, he is now required to save all time and humankind along with carry a heavy heart.

The Adam Project Review

Time travel is a theme that has been explored in multiple movies. Let’s start with Back To The Future. Great idea. Amazingly unique but all because of the time it released. It was new then. On the other hand is Interstellar; regardless of when it is viewed, the movie is going to have the same impact. It has a great story, perfect cast and in terms of execution, it is arguably the best time travel movie there. Do not fight me on this.

With this logic, The Adam Project should also have been a timeless film (get it?). It had a perfect cast; Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner and Catherine Keener. The story could be said to be innovative but the execution is what took the timeless factor away.

Before getting into the mucky, I would like to mention that The Adam Project had an absolutely great thought. No one would voluntarily revisit 2020 to 2022 years. Adam mentioned how those years were the worst and how he actually wanted to go to 2018. Relatable. Even with things easing out and the world opening up again, do I really think 2022 will be great? No. Adam Reed seems to agree with my idea. Why should I not believe a ripped man from the future?

He also happens to be exactly like Ryan Reynolds. With every passing movie, Ryan takes on characters that are the same and almost similar to his public identity. They are interchangeable. At this point, I love Ryan Reynolds more as a social media celebrity and Blake Lively’s husband than his characters and movies. Keeping his other movies aside, Adam is a great character. A sarcastic man who has many emotional layers to him even though the 12-year-old in him hasn’t completely vanished. They had a farting bullet wound so it isn’t a stretch to say that this movie tries to mix time travel with blatant comedy.

Another great part of the movie is the referencing. Terminator, Star Wars, Marvel and 13 Going On 30 are all in there. If not in terms of direct references, they are present as casting, ideas and even chemistry. Seeing Jennifer Garner with Mark Ruffalo made me melt because 13 Going On 30 deserves another movie of them grown up. Mark explaining physics to Ryan was almost as good as Bruce Banner teaching time travel rules to Deadpool. Mark Ruffalo was also playing another variant of Bruce Banner but let’s just stop at how the movie may not have even tried with Ruffalo’s character.

The movie also had the most beautiful scenes. Picturesque forest home that has a modern interior design supporting the feel of timelessness. They may have gone overboard with the concept of time in the movie but they did make it look beautiful. When the shots weren’t of the Adams bantering in the forest, then it was them bantering in an aesthetically pleasing town and also in a geek’s wet dream of a space jet. Both the Adam’s also participated in some really advanced fight sequences. Not advanced in terms of the choreography but in terms of the entire concept of it.

The entire story was not concept or technicality heavy but yet the execution really tried making it so. The fact that the young Adam cared more about knowing that he gets laid in the future shows that it was not only the audience that was sick of the technicality and concept explanations. Unlike other time travel movies, the story had a comparatively easier science to follow. While in the first half, one does believe that in this story, time is not affected if the two versions of the same person meet, the second half, Adam’s father seems to say otherwise. The entire inherent idea was neither explained properly or given any substantial context to. Which is in consistency with rest of the story lines. Every theme, thought and nuance was spoken out but not explored even a bit.

The most shocking aspect that should have been at least shown is the future. Through the movie we have heard Ryan’s Adam mention multiple times how the future is really grim and bad. He even said that a good day in 2050 is like Terminator. Yet, we never see it or even hear about what exactly is so torturous. The antagonist is clear. We don’t know why they are the antagonist but their right hand man has a burnt face so like every movie they have to be the bad guys right?

Moving ahead, the young Adam was ignored way too many times. After the first few times, it wasn’t even intentional. Ryan’s Adam just got a lot more attention, even from his parents. Overall their entire dynamic was super confusing. What didn’t help was that Ryan and Walker looked so different from each other. Hair colours can change but in a movie that is dependent on future and past self, the basic similarities should be present. They could have been blonde or brunette, why were they both! If the plot wasn’t obvious from the beginning, I would have said this differenced rendered me confused.

The Adam Project had too many endings. What this means is that, the movie felt like it ended multiple times through the 1 hour 45 minutes running time. If someone stopped the film at around 30 minutes, the scene would feel like a conclusion. The movie almost never reached a peak climax point. This could also be because the movie had way too many and a little too long chase and fight sequences. They were unnecessary and after sometime it lost the futuristic charm to it too.

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The Adam Project did not live up to the hype or the wait at all. It could be the high expectations that Reynolds brings with him along with Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Garner (both of who deserved more screen time) who added onto the expectations.

While it was a cute movie, it isn’t something I would rave about to anyone. Would recommend it for nostalgia kicks and a good conversational time pass.

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What is Project 2025? What to know about the conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration

By Melissa Quinn , Jacob Rosen

Updated on: July 11, 2024 / 9:40 AM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Voters in recent weeks have begun to hear the name "Project 2025" invoked more and more by President Biden and Democrats, as they seek to sound the alarm about what could be in store if former President Donald Trump wins a second term in the White House.

Overseen by the conservative Heritage Foundation, the multi-pronged initiative includes a detailed blueprint for the next Republican president to usher in a sweeping overhaul of the executive branch.

Trump and his campaign have worked to distance themselves from Project 2025, with the former president going so far as to call some of the proposals "abysmal." But Democrats have continued to tie the transition project to Trump, especially as they find themselves mired in their own controversy over whether Mr. Biden should withdraw from the 2024 presidential contest following his startling debate performance last month.

Here is what to know about Project 2025:

What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a proposed presidential transition project that is composed of four pillars: a policy guide for the next presidential administration; a LinkedIn-style database of personnel who could serve in the next administration; training for that pool of candidates dubbed the "Presidential Administration Academy;" and a playbook of actions to be taken within the first 180 days in office.

It is led by two former Trump administration officials: Paul Dans, who was chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management and serves as director of the project, and Spencer Chretien, former special assistant to Trump and now the project's associate director.

Project 2025 is spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, but includes an advisory board consisting of more than 100 conservative groups.

Much of the focus on — and criticism of — Project 2025 involves its first pillar, the nearly 900-page policy book that lays out an overhaul of the federal government. Called "Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise," the book builds on a "Mandate for Leadership" first published in January 1981, which sought to serve as a roadmap for Ronald Reagan's incoming administration.

The recommendations outlined in the sprawling plan reach every corner of the executive branch, from the Executive Office of the President to the Department of Homeland Security to the little-known Export-Import Bank.

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with advisers in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D,C., on June 25, 2019.

The Heritage Foundation also created a "Mandate for Leadership" in 2015 ahead of Trump's first term. Two years into his presidency, it touted that Trump had instituted 64% of its policy recommendations, ranging from leaving the Paris Climate Accords, increasing military spending, and increasing off-shore drilling and developing federal lands. In July 2020, the Heritage Foundation gave its updated version of the book to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

The authors of many chapters are familiar names from the Trump administration, such as Russ Vought, who led the Office of Management and Budget; former acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller; and Roger Severino, who was director of the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Vought is the policy director for the 2024 Republican National Committee's platform committee, which released its proposed platform on Monday.

John McEntee, former director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office under Trump, is a senior advisor to the Heritage Foundation, and said that the group will "integrate a lot of our work" with the Trump campaign when the official transition efforts are announced in the next few months.

Candidates interested in applying for the Heritage Foundation's "Presidential Personnel Database" are vetted on a number of political stances, such as whether they agree or disagree with statements like "life has a right to legal protection from conception to natural death," and "the President should be able to advance his/her agenda through the bureaucracy without hindrance from unelected federal officials."

The contributions from ex-Trump administration officials have led its critics to tie Project 2025 to his reelection campaign, though the former president has attempted to distance himself from the initiative.

What are the Project 2025 plans?

Some of the policies in the Project 2025 agenda have been discussed by Republicans for years or pushed by Trump himself: less federal intervention in education and more support for school choice; work requirements for able-bodied, childless adults on food stamps; and a secure border with increased enforcement of immigration laws, mass deportations and construction of a border wall.

But others have come under scrutiny in part because of the current political landscape.

Abortion and social issues

In recommendations for the Department of Health and Human Services, the agenda calls for the Food and Drug Administration to reverse its 24-year-old approval of the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. Other proposed actions targeting medication abortion include reinstating more stringent rules for mifepristone's use, which would permit it to be taken up to seven weeks into a pregnancy, instead of the current 10 weeks, and requiring it to be dispensed in-person instead of through the mail.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group that is on the Project 2025 advisory board, was involved in a legal challenge to mifepristone's 2000 approval and more recent actions from the FDA that made it easier to obtain. But the Supreme Court rejected the case brought by a group of anti-abortion rights doctors and medical associations on procedural grounds.

The policy book also recommends the Justice Department enforce the Comstock Act against providers and distributors of abortion pills. That 1873 law prohibits drugs, medicines or instruments used in abortions from being sent through the mail.

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade , the volume states that the Justice Department "in the next conservative administration should therefore announce its intent to enforce federal law against providers and distributors of such pills."

The guide recommends the next secretary of Health and Human Services get rid of the Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force established by the Biden administration before Roe's reversal and create a "pro-life task force to ensure that all of the department's divisions seek to use their authority to promote the life and health of women and their unborn children."

In a section titled "The Family Agenda," the proposal recommends the Health and Human Services chief "proudly state that men and women are biological realities," and that "married men and women are the ideal, natural family structure because all children have a right to be raised by the men and women who conceived them."

Further, a program within the Health and Human Services Department should "maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family."

During his first four years in office, Trump banned transgender people from serving in the military. Mr. Biden reversed that policy , but the Project 2025 policy book calls for the ban to be reinstated.

Targeting federal agencies, employees and policies

The agenda takes aim at longstanding federal agencies, like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. The agency is a component of the Commerce Department and the policy guide calls for it to be downsized.

NOAA's six offices, including the National Weather Service and National Marine Fisheries Service, "form a colossal operation that has become one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity," the guide states.

The Department of Homeland Security, established in 2002, should be dismantled and its agencies either combined with others, or moved under the purview of other departments altogether, the policy book states. For example, immigration-related entities from the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Health and Human Services should form a standalone, Cabinet-level border and immigration agency staffed by more than 100,000 employees, according to the agenda.

If the policy recommendations are implemented, another federal agency that could come under the knife by the next administration, with action from Congress, is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The agenda seeks to bring a push by conservatives to target diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives in higher education to the executive branch by wiping away a slew of DEI-related positions, policies and programs and calling for the elimination of funding for partners that promote DEI practices.

It states that U.S. Agency for International Development staff and grantees that "engage in ideological agitation on behalf of the DEI agenda" should be terminated. At the Treasury Department, the guide says the next administration should "treat the participation in any critical race theory or DEI initiative without objecting on constitutional or moral grounds, as per se grounds for termination of employment."

The Project 2025 policy book also takes aim at more innocuous functions of government. It calls for the next presidential administration to eliminate or reform the dietary guidelines that have been published by the Department of Agriculture for more than 40 years, which the authors claim have been "infiltrated" by issues like climate change and sustainability.

Immigration

Trump made immigration a cornerstone of his last two presidential runs and has continued to hammer the issue during his 2024 campaign. Project 2025's agenda not only recommends finishing the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but urges the next administration to "take a creative and aggressive approach" to responding to drug cartels at the border. This approach includes using active-duty military personnel and the National Guard to help with arrest operations along the southern border.

A memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that prohibits enforcement actions from taking place at "sensitive" places like schools, playgrounds and churches should be rolled back, the policy guide states.

When the Homeland Security secretary determines there is an "actual or anticipated mass migration of aliens" that presents "urgent circumstances" warranting a federal response, the agenda says the secretary can make rules and regulations, including through their expulsion, for as long as necessary. These rules, the guide states, aren't subject to the Administration Procedure Act, which governs the agency rule-making process.

What do Trump and his advisers say about Project 2025?

In a post to his social media platform on July 5, Trump wrote , "I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them."

Trump's pushback to the initiative came after Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said in a podcast interview that the nation is "in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."

The former president continued to disavow the initiative this week, writing in another social media post that he knows nothing about Project 2025.

"I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it," Trump wrote. "The Radical Left Democrats are having a field day, however, trying to hook me into whatever policies are stated or said. It is pure disinformation on their part. By now, after all of these years, everyone knows where I stand on EVERYTHING!"

While the former president said he doesn't know who is in charge of the initiative, the project's director, Dans, and associate director, Chretien, were high-ranking officials in his administration. Additionally, Ben Carson, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Trump; John Ratcliffe, former director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration; and Peter Navarro, who served as a top trade adviser to Trump in the White House, are listed as either authors or contributors to the policy agenda.

Still, even before Roberts' comments during "The War Room" podcast — typically hosted by conservative commentator Steve Bannon, who reported to federal prison to begin serving a four-month sentence last week — Trump's top campaign advisers have stressed that Project 2025 has no official ties to his reelection bid.

Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, senior advisers to the Trump campaign, said in a November statement that 2024 policy announcements will be made by Trump or his campaign team.

"Any personnel lists, policy agendas, or government plans published anywhere are merely suggestions," they said.

While the efforts by outside organizations are "appreciated," Wiles and LaCivita said, "none of these groups or individuals speak for President Trump or his campaign."

In response to Trump's post last week, Project 2025 reiterated that it was separate from the Trump campaign.

"As we've been saying for more than two years now, Project 2025 does not speak for any candidate or campaign. We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy & personnel recommendations for the next conservative president. But it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement," a statement on the project's X account said.

The initiative has also pushed back on Democrats' claims about its policy proposals and accused them of lying about what the agenda contains.

What do Democrats say?

Despite their attempts to keep some distance from Project 2025, Democrats continue to connect Trump with the transition effort. The Biden-Harris campaign frequently posts about the project on X, tying it to a second Trump term.

Mr. Biden himself accused his Republican opponent of lying about his connections to the Project 2025 agenda, saying in a statement that the agenda was written for Trump and "should scare every single American." He claimed on his campaign social media account Wednesday that Project 2025 "will destroy America."

Congressional Democrats have also begun pivoting to Project 2025 when asked in interviews about Mr. Biden's fitness for a second term following his lackluster showing at the June 27 debate, the first in which he went head-to-head with Trump.

"Trump is all about Project 2025," Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman told CNN on Monday. "I mean, that's what we really should be voting on right now. It's like, do we want the kind of president that is all about Project '25?"

Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, one of Mr. Biden's closest allies on Capitol Hill, told reporters Monday that the agenda for the next Republican president was the sole topic he would talk about.

"Project 2025, that's my only concern," he said. "I don't want you or my granddaughter to live under that government."

In a statement reiterating her support for Mr. Biden, Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida called Project 2025 "MAGA Republicans' draconian 920-page plan to end U.S. democracy, give handouts to the wealthy and strip Americans of their freedoms."

What are Republicans saying about Project 2025?

Two GOP senators under consideration to serve as Trump's running mate sought to put space between the White House hopeful and Project 2025, casting it as merely the product of a think tank that puts forth ideas.

"It's the work of a think tank, of a center-right think tank, and that's what think tanks do," Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.

He said Trump's message to voters focuses on "restoring common sense, working-class values, and making our decisions on the basis of that."

Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance raised a similar sentiment in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," saying organizations will have good ideas and bad ideas.

"It's a 900-page document," he said Sunday. "I guarantee there are things that Trump likes and dislikes about that 900-page document. But he is the person who will determine the agenda of the next administration."

Jaala Brown contributed to this report.

Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com. She has written for outlets including the Washington Examiner, Daily Signal and Alexandria Times. Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts.

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a rally in ... [+] Doral, Florida, on July 9, 2024. Trump has criticized President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plans at recent rallies. (Photo by Giorgio Viera / AFP) (Photo by GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)

With questions swirling about the future of President Joe Biden’s candidacy for reelection, there is an increasing possibility that Donald Trump could return to the White House. While the Biden administration has enacted upwards of $167 billion in student loan forgiveness during the last four years, millions of borrowers remain on the hook for their student debt. And the future of student loan forgiveness and favorable repayment programs is uncertain.

During Trump’s presidency, no major student loan forgiveness plans were repealed. This includes Public Service Loan Forgiveness — a popular debt relief program that can eliminate a borrower’s federal student loans after 10 years of payments while working for nonprofit or government organizations. Advocacy groups argued that the Trump administration slow-walked relief for millions of borrowers, severely curtailing the effectiveness of existing loan forgiveness programs. And Trump’s Education Department took concrete steps to narrow relief, such as by rewriting regulations governing Borrower Defense to Repayment. But by and large, the federal student loan system — including PSLF and most other major loan forgiveness programs, as well as income-driven repayment programs — remained technically intact.

That may not be true during a second Trump administration, however. Project 2025 — a sweeping conservative policy proposal — calls for modifying, rescinding, or repealing federal student loan forgiveness plans, including PSLF and debt relief through IDR programs. The Trump campaign has distanced itself from Project 2025, but Trump himself has spoken out against Biden’s student loan forgiveness initiates on the campaign trail.

If re-elected, could Trump repeal PSLF and other student loan forgiveness plans? Here’s a breakdown of what could happen.

Administrative Changes Could Interfere With Student Loan Forgiveness Plans

Without directly changing any rules or statutes governing federal student loan forgiveness and repayment programs, a future Trump administration could still make it harder for borrowers to receive debt relief.

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Project 2025 calls for a significant restructuring of the federal government, including abolishing the Education Department. “Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated,” reads the proposal . Trump himself has spoken out in favor of taking action to significantly reduce the federal government workforce. Such changes could have direct impacts on federal student loan programs.

Even now, the Education Department and its contracted loan servicers have struggled to implement various student loan forgiveness and repayment plan initiatives. This has led to processing backlogs, billing mistakes, and delayed relief . Eliminating the department, wiping out staff and their associated institutional expertise, and drastically cutting funding could make it even harder for borrowers to apply and receive approval for various student loan programs, including PSLF and IDR — even if those programs technically remain available.

Steps To Modify Or Rescind Student Loan Forgiveness And Repayment Plan Rules, Including For PSLF

At a minimum, a future Trump administration would at least try to tackle the low-hanging fruit of the student loan system: programs enacted primarily through Education Department regulations.

Historically, Congress has passed statutes establishing certain student loan programs, but left if up to the Education Department to draft regulations implementing those programs. The statutes basically provide broad parameters within which the department can operate, and then the regulations go into far more detail about how the programs ultimately work.

Trump as president probably couldn’t just do away with formal student loan forgiveness or repayment programs with the flick of a pen. But he could direct the Education Department to draft new regulations that change or diminish how the plans operate, or — for certain programs — repeal them entirely. Drafting and implementing new regulations takes time (typically a year or two). But that’s easily possible during a four-year presidential administration.

The programs most at risk could be the Saving on a Valuable Education plan, as well as Pay As You Earn. SAVE and PAYE are two IDR plans, established largely through the regulatory process, that base a borrower’s monthly payments on their income. Separately, SAVE is already facing two serious legal challenges that threaten its future.

The Trump administration would probably not be able to completely eliminate other programs, such as PSLF, through the regulatory process, since PSLF is authorized by statute previously passed by Congress. Similarly, Income-Based Repayment, or IBR, is a separate IDR program (different from SAVE and PAYE) that was established by Congress through statute. But he could order the Education Department to rescind new PSLF regulations established during the Biden administration that relax prior restrictions and make it easier for borrowers to qualify for loan forgiveness.

Congress Could Repeal PSLF And Other Student Loan Forgiveness Programs

If Republicans obtain unified control of the House, Senate, and the White House, student loan forgiveness and repayment programs could be at greater risk. That’s because Congress would be able to pass legislation that goes much further than regulatory changes.

During the first two years of the Trump administration, Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate. During that time, no legislation was passed to repeal major student loan forgiveness or repayment plans, including PSLF. So, unified control of Washington does not come with any guarantees of major legislative changes. But, since then, student loan forgiveness has become a much more polarized and partisan issue. Whether repeal legislation could actually pass may depend on how large Republican majorities are in each chamber of Congress, and whether Senate Republicans would need to overcome a filibuster, which would require a supermajority.

A Republican-led Congress could potentially repeal popular student loan forgiveness programs, including PSLF and IDR plans, by passing new legislation. Even this year — when Republicans only control the House of Representatives — congressional GOP leadership released proposed legislation that would eliminate student loan forgiveness associated with IDR plans and repeal borrower-friendly debt relief regulations enacted during the Biden administration (although it would appear to leave PSLF intact).

A major question for current borrowers is whether they would be “grandfathered in” to existing programs if they were repealed — meaning that any changes would only apply to new or future borrowers going forward. If current borrowers are not grandfathered in, some advocates argue that there could be a basis for legal challenges, since these borrowers would have made decisions in reliance on the continued existence of these programs, many of which were contractually built into federal student loan promissory notes.

But whether or not to grandfather people in would ultimately be up to Congress. And if there are subsequent legal challenges brought by borrowers, the outcome of those challenges would ultimately be up to the courts.

Bottom Line For Student Loan Borrowers

Student loan borrowers are already dealing with unprecedented uncertainty. The upcoming presidential election injects even more unpredictability. Even if President Biden wins reelection, certain student loan forgiveness and repayment initiatives — such as the SAVE plan — remain at risk due to court challenges.

If Trump returns to office, more student loan programs could be in danger. But the scope of that danger may depend, at least in part, on who controls Congress, and how far the White House and Republican leaders are willing to go in curtailing student debt relief plans.

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The Adam Project is like a leap into the past - a film that revels in the sci-fi nerdiness of the '80s while packing epic adventure and heartfelt life lessons into a fun, time traveling yarn. ...
The Adam Project Ending and Time Travel Explained
Louis and Adam had a difficult relationship when he was a child because Louis spent a lot of time at work, and Adam felt neglected. The two come to blows when they meet, but Louis eventually ...
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Warning: Spoilers for The Adam Project ahead.. Netflix's The Adam Project deals with time travel and villains and its ending grapples with multiple themes, meaning, and sets up a potential sequel. Starring Ryan Reynolds as Adam Reed, a time-traveling pilot on a very specific mission, The Adam Project is a sci-fi yarn with a lot of heart, reminiscent of the Amblin movies of the 80s.
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Our review: Parents say ( 17 ): Kids say ( 47 ): The real surprise in this fun, layered, time-traveling action mystery is the tenderness with which family relationships and sentiments are handled. The Adam Project gives its characters the opportunity to go back in time to right misdirected relationships and fix missed chances to fully express ...
The Adam Project: Plot And Ending Explained (Timeline Diagram)
The Adam Project is a 2022 time-travel action film directed by Shawn Levy. The story is centred on a man who travels back in time and accidentally lands in the wrong year and runs into his younger self; the two team up to save the future. The time travel logic in the film is all over the place, but the witty humour keeps the film interesting.
The Adam Project (2022)
In 2022, the twelve-year-old boy Adam Reed lives with his mother Ellie and misses his beloved father, the scientist Louis Reed, who has recently died. While his mother is working, Adam finds the pilot in the garage and soon he learns that the pilot is himself in 2050. Further, he intended to jump to 2018 to save his wife, Laura, who apparently ...
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David Ehrlich, de indieWire: "The Adam Project" cae en un ciclo de letargo, de pseudociencia y frases ingeniosas porque no logra acumular ningún peso emocional. Antes de que te vayas: Triple Frontera | Top de críticas, reseñas y calificaciones. "Es inofensiva y no reinventa nada en absoluto, pero a su vez es un entretenimiento muy ...
The Adam Project ending explained: your biggest questions answered
The film focuses on Ryan Reynolds' titular Adam, who travels back in time on the trail of his missing wife, Laura (Zoe Saldaña). In the past, he meets his younger self (Walker Scobell), and both ...
The Adam Project ending explained
The Adam Project ending explained. The movie kicks off with Adam in 2050 after he's stolen a time jet and before his pursuers can catch up with him, he goes through a wormhole and crash-lands in 2022.
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Plot summary. In 2050, Adam, a fighter pilot, is being chased by futuristic space ships. Having been wounded by someone, he desperately opens up a wormhole and escapes back in time to 2022. In this time period, a younger Adam (Walker Scobell) is struggling to come to grips with the demise of his father, Louis Reed (Mark Ruffalo), in an accident ...
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The relationship between Adam's parents, Ellie and Louis Reed (reunited "13 Going on 30" stars Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo), is the heart of the movie. Louis is the brains behind the concept ...
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One of the tentpoles on Netflix's gigantic 2022 movie slate, The Adam Project follows Adam Reed, a character played by both Reynolds and newcomer Walker Scobell.The older Reed is a time-traveling ...
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After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future. Watch trailers & learn more.
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The Adam Project Cast. Ryan Reynolds as Adam Reed; Walker Scobell as Young Adam Reed; Zoe Saldaña as Laura; Catherine Keener as Maya Sorian; The Adam Project Plot. Adam Reed crash lands into 2022 and is now subjected to the people who were chasing him and his 2-year-old self. Knowing the stuff of future and meeting his past self, he is now ...
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Director Shawn Levy confirmed he would be working on a Star Wars long ago, and his project has finally picked up development steam by hiring the writer of The Adam Project.There are several new ...
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