David and his friends builds a time machine and uses it for their on selfish gains but it soon tells on them when the future falls apart with catastrophes. They must find a way to stop the disasters and save humanity.
This MTV Films-backed teen-romance for the GoPro-in-ADHD generation actually makes a music-fest a (creaky) plot-hinge. It's part wanna-be Primer, part energy-drink-hangover-experience.
The premise has been done to death, but screenwriters Andrew Stark and Jason Pagan give it a fresh and pleasant spin by using it as a vehicle for adolescent wish fulfillment
The premise, which initially has a certain interior logic, grows implausible and then nonsensical.
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January 30, 2015
Maybe it will work better on home video where unrestrained camera movement is less likely to provoke nausea but it certainly doesn't work on a big screen.
Maybe every time-travel movie can't use a souped-up DeLorean, but Project Almanac may leave you wanting to pull out your old copy of Back to the Future instead.
The genre dramatizes the identity formation that goes on during the digital technology-glutted adolescent years, which are filled with screens and captured images, whether from smartphones, cameras, vlogging, or pictures on social media.
