Directed by : Dean Israelite
Written by : Jason Pagan, Andrew Deutschman
Starring : Jonny Weston, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, Virginia Gardner, Sofia Black-D'Elia,
Release Date : November 13, 2014
Unfortunately, this movie utilizes the handheld camera found-footage amateur documentary style, and it is still very annoying to watch. Fortunately, the story of how some high school kids have discovered a device that allows them to time-travel is actually rather entertaining. It doesn't bring too much new things to this particular genre, but I did find it enjoyable nonetheless.
The main conceit to this story is that it's portraying what teenagers would likely actually do with a time-machine. This is pretty much wish-fulfillment, so expect some abusive use of its ability from the point of view of a high schooler. This creates some amusing comedic situations that were fun to see play out, but it does also get serious enough when the consequences of their actions happen.
Despite the good this movie tries to do, there were several things that were illogical in its storytelling, its character developments, and its execution of doing the video blogging camera that's always recording (with on-the-fly editing?!!). I at least found the conclusion satisfying enough, and it even justifies the reasoning behind the handheld camera direction. "Project Almanac" is not necessarily a great time travel movie by any means, but fans of the genre may as well check it out.
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