The Adam Project
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- epic-stakes
Warm, breathless, gentle adventure / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
Our read · The Adam Project (2022) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive adventure · sci-fi · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
More info & search links
The shape of The Adam Project
What watching it is actually like.
“You want breezy time-travel adventure with father-son banter and heart.”
Skip it tonight — Reynolds quips and Netflix sci-fi gloss feel too formulaic tonight.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
Discussion
What does your Movie DNA look like?
Rate a few films you've seen. We map your taste across the same twelve axes and find the films you'll actually want to watch tonight.
Calibrate yourself