Project Almanac

All of the young actors are committed, and director Dean Israelite has a good handle on the material, offering his own contributions to the time travel genre (like how violent the act itself is) while continually tipping his hat to what came before it.

Clever, funny but emotionally stunted. Like most teenagers.

Even with all the teen angst and temporal alterations, the film stays fleet, funny and fast, especially as our leads figure out, through trial and error, how they can take advantage of their new abilities in ways large and small.

If Project Almanac didn’t bungle it all with a shrug of an ending, it would be easier to recommend. Maybe someone with a time machine should go back and give the movie a do-over.

I know this is a teen-boy fantasy — it was produced by Michael Bay, after all — but the female characters in Project Almanac are lamely retro, little more than props in short shorts.

Evaluated on the concept’s own terms, the script clearly could have used another do-over or two before Israelite and his cast took the plunge.

The film delivers the same misogynistic, faux-modernistic jolts of trashy humor and labored plotting that typify the work of co-producer Michael Bay.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Generally enjoyable. It takes a while to actually get going in my opinion but when it does it is quite good. Weirdly though in the end I didn't come away satisfied. I have no problem with the story as what happens is very believable. But still, I can't really recommend it to anyone unless they really like time travel

The beginning bit where they were first messing around with time travel and trying to do things for selfish reason, is actually pretty funny, I genuinely enjoyed it. The the main character breaks his OWN rule (for no discernible reason... he could have fixed the situation with a simple "I'm sorry, I'm an awkward dork, but I do like you, and should've kissed you... can we start over?" Instead, he goes and be's a dumbass, and **** everything up. The movie also mixes too many time travel paradoxes together. The toy car makes it seems like a predestination paradox, them going back in time and avoiding their past selves, makes it seem like an alternate timeline paradox, the fact that they go back and don't run into their future selves, who had already gone back makes it seem like there's a protective bubble around them. And then at the end (spoilers), they try to make it seems likes it's a stable time loop, MIXED, with an alternate timeline, and you have no idea whether they're gonna learn from their mistakes, or (more likely), just mess things up again.

If you are 10 to 15 years old maybe you will enjoy this, because you can feel related in some way, after all who has not wanted to travel in time?, but honestly this is just a weak work.

This film is not only full of plot holes but is also one of the worst of 2015. A awful love story and below average acting meets found footage format which as we have seen in many movie's the who found footage thing never works out. The plot is so cliche but what these kids were good at doing is acting like how normal teenagers would if they found out about a time travel device. There is a bunch of awful dialogue in the movie and a concert scene that goes on for far too long. I had low hopes going into this movie but I walked out disappointed. Such a shame