Review of Project Almanac (2015) by Scout523 — 19 Jun 2015

This movie, in my opinion, is massively underrated. I can understand why some people may not like the movie, but I, despite knowing the flaws, enjoyed this movie. The visual effects are wonderful and realistic, as tape from cameras doesn't always come out picture perfect, and there will be glitches, and the fact that they made the camera glitch when the time machine made the magnetic field right before it transported people was very realistic in my opinion.

The subject of time travel is handled very well, such as altering the past affecting the future. Even though it brought to light the fact that they were actually living in the past, and knew from David's 7th birthday party home video that the time machine would eventually work (as David points out to his late father (whom died in a car crash on his 7th birthday), simply by being there). The subject of being erased from a timeline by seeing your past or future self, was, in my opinion, realistic, but, seemingly far fetched. How so? I can't really elaborate. This, despite what I just said, actually makes the movie realistic, and not just completely fictional Hollywood garbage, as Hollywood likes to pump out yearly within the genre of science fiction.

Even though time travel as a whole is physically impossible (shouldn't we have been visited by future beings by now?), the movie handled it really well, bringing to light some very well-known theories on time travel. Now, this doesn't mean the movie was perfect. The fact that a ten-year-old camera could produce such high-quality footage is completely Hollywood content, though every found footage movie ever made had uber-high quality footage.

Now, be honest with yourself. Would you rather see 1080p, or 144p? The answer may seem obvious, though it seems that that kind of realism is just something Hollywood directors can't grasp. The reasons that the teenagers go back in time is pretty ridiculous and selfish (somewhat), but, come on! They're teenagers! Not brilliant scientists (even though the one kid is going to MIT, he still is just 17)! I just don't see how you guys look past this.

Overall, the movie is flawed, but is more than just a popcorn flick. You will enjoy this film if you are a sci-fi fan like me, and you also don't need any alcohol or drugs.