Project Almanac
David Raskin and his friends finds out his late father's scheme to create a time machine and together they completed it. They were able to see the disasters that would befall mankind in future so they must travel back in time to make sure they never invent the machine or avert the disasters.
14 November 1949, Amory, Mississippi, USA
14 July 1987, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
23 December 1991, Clifton, New Jersey, USA
30 September 1969, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 June 1972, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
8 May 1968, Durham, North Carolina, USA
June 16, 2015
Yet another chance to berate the found-footage genre, and I'm going to take it.
February 05, 2015
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
January 30, 2015
On the whole, this is a good B-movie that hits it modest marks.
May 30, 2015
Let's be honest -- no gimmick in cinema past, present or future could make this tripe palatable.
April 25, 2017
Project Almanac is a good entertainment, suitable for a teen movie or another proposal that uses the found footage format. [Full review in Spanish]
January 21, 2016
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.
February 02, 2015
Ugly, unfocused photography makes it impossible to enjoy the film beyond its theoretical novelty.
November 05, 2015
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.
April 05, 2015
Aside from the last 20 minutes or so, this is a film with zero tension.
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.
May 25, 2015
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.
January 31, 2015
The premise, which initially has a certain interior logic, grows implausible and then nonsensical.
