Project Almanac
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Project Almanac |
| Original title | Project Almanac |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dean Israelite |
| script |
Andrew Deutschmann , Jason Pagan |
| production |
Michael Bay , Andrew Form , Bradley Fuller |
| camera | Matthew J. Lloyd |
| cut |
Martin Bernfeld , Julian Clarke |
| occupation | |
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Project Almanac is an American found footage - science fiction film by Dean Israelite from the year 2015. The screenplay is by Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman . Shot in 2013 and originally scheduled for a release in spring 2014, the film wasn't released in the US until January 30, 2015. The cinema release in Germany was on March 5, 2015.
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The young David Raskin is a technically gifted person. With the help of his friends Quinn and Adam, he is applying to study at MIT with a drone project . His sister Christina films a test flight of the drone with her camera, which ends in a crash. Despite the unsuccessful attempt, David is admitted to study at MIT, but only receives a $ 5,000 scholarship .
To get the missing $ 40,000 he needs to finance his studies, he searches for old research projects of his late father in the attic of the family home. He had a fatal accident on David's seventh birthday in a car accident. By submitting a research project to MIT, David could receive a full scholarship. While searching the attic, Christina and David discover their father's old camera. It shows the birthday party for David's seventh birthday. While glancing through the material, he discovers himself as an adult in a mirror on the video. His sister Christina thinks this is absurd, but David's friends Quinn and Adam also recognize David in the mirror.
To find out what he is doing on the video, he and his friends re-enact the scene and discover that David must be on his way to the basement. While examining his father's old cellar, they discover a hidden metal box with the heart of a time machine as well as the associated assembly instructions and a DARPA ID card from David's father.
With everyone except Christina seeing the video of David's birthday party as proof that the machine will work, they begin building it. They cannot buy the hydrogen they need for the time machine and therefore steal it from David's school without further ado. Since they keep failing to supply the machine with energy, they take the opportunity to have a party in the neighborhood and use the pretty Jessie Pierce's car as a source of energy. While trying to send a toy car in David's basement to the past, Jessie discovers that they are using their car as a source of energy and bursts into the middle of the experiment.
The toy car is actually sent back in time. From then on, the five friends act as a group. They make rules for traveling back in time, the most basic of all rules being that they make each trip together. The first time you try to send yourself a day back in time, everyone in the past goes to Quinn's house to see if time travel actually worked. When Quinn looks his past self in the eyes, both get into an endless loop and his friends can just prevent the two of them from dissolving into nothing by removing the current Quinn from the room. In the following time they undertake several smaller trips into the past, during which they iron out a botched chemistry exam by Quinn, help Christina get revenge on her tormentor at school, and win the lottery. When they pick up the prize, however, the friends discover that Adam accidentally only ticked five correct numbers and they only get $ 1.8 million instead of the expected $ 53 million.
While Quinn uses the money to buy a sports car and to become popular at school, David buys new components for the time machine so that he can travel back in time for up to ten years instead of the previous three weeks. David and Jessie slowly get closer. To make her happy too, the five friends travel three months back to the Lollapalooza Festival together. At the festival, David and Jessie stand in front of the “Before the world ends” wall, on which people write down what they want to do before the world ends. When Jessie says "Before the world ends, I want to fall in love", David doesn't understand her clear signal and lets his chance with Jessie slip by. Upon their return, the friendship between the two becomes strange, whereupon David reproaches himself for not doing the right thing.
To get a second chance, David breaks the most important rule of not traveling alone and returns to Lollapalooza. There he uses his new opportunity to land with Jessie. When he returns to the present, the two are already a couple and David is overjoyed. When the others realize that their changes in the past caused a plane crash, they want to return to Lollapalooza to undo it. Faced with losing Jessie, David decides to go back in time by himself and disrupt the chain of events that led to the crash. Shortly before leaving he is caught by Adam and can just escape into the past. After completing his plan, he returns to find that he is still with Jessie. But he is immediately confronted with the next catastrophe: Adam was beaten up after a football game and is in a coma.
David wants to travel back into the past alone to prevent this as well. However, he is caught by Jessie, who travels with him into the past. An argument breaks out between the two and David confesses to her that he has traveled back to Lollapalooza alone to meet her. Jessie only tells him that if she were smart enough to build a time machine, she would have traveled back to get to know David earlier as she has liked him since they first met. As the two hug and settle the argument, the Jessie from the past appears and both Jessies disappear through an endless loop. David returns in a panic, determined to save Jessie. In his house he finds Quinn at the door, who tells him that Jessie has disappeared.
David now understands that the only way to prevent all of this is to destroy the time machine. He is therefore planning to return for his seventh birthday. Quinn initially protests against it, since people finally know his name, but he still holds out of friendship with David. Meanwhile, the police show up and look for David, since they hold him responsible for Jessie's disappearance. However, he has to go back to school because the hydrogen supply has been used up and he still needs some for the last trip. He manages to escape from the police and get to school. Shortly before the police can arrest him, he travels back ten years.
Arriving in the past, he goes to his house and ends up at the birthday party for his seventh birthday. In the cellar he meets his father, who soon recognizes him as his son from the future. David tells him that there are "no second chances" and that he has to destroy the time machine. He also tells him that he should say goodbye to his (7-year-old) son. After David's father leaves, David sets all critical documents and the heart of the machine on fire. Sitting on the workbench, David waits a few moments before dissolving.
In the epilogue , David is seen rummaging in the attic again, with Christina filming him again. The two now find two cameras in the attic, one of which contains all the events of the time travel. At school he then approaches Jessie Pierce and tells her that they are "just about to change the world".
Filming and publishing
Filming for the film began in June 2013 in Atlanta , Georgia . Shortly before the release, it was discovered that the footage shows a real airplane crash for two seconds. According to Paramount, the footage shows a 2009 crash, while the Air Force Times reported that the footage was almost identical to that of the 1994 B-52 crash at Fairchild Air Force Base , as confirmed by victims' families . As a result, producer Michael Bay apologized for the incident and said he thought the scene was a special effect while viewing the footage. The scene was removed from the film prior to release.
On February 5, 2014, Paramount postponed the February 28, 2014 launch indefinitely. On March 24, 2014, Borys Kit, editor of the Hollywood Reporter , tweeted that the film, originally titled Welcome to Yesterday , would be renamed Project Almanac . The film was finally released in American cinemas on January 30, 2015 and in German cinemas on March 5, 2015.
Reviews
The film received mixed reviews overall. At Rotten Tomatoes , 34% of reviews are positive out of a total of 82 reviews; the average rating is 4.7 / 10. The critical consensus says: “ Project Almanac is not lacking in wit or originality, but the film is only recommendable to a limited extent because of the thin story and the irritating found footage camera.” The film service says that “neither the visual effects nor the acting Performance "would convince.
On the occasion of the first broadcast on German free TV, the program magazine TV Spielfilm criticized the fact that the film began "with drive and wit", but then one would be disappointed when "halfway through it became clear that the makers were not having an emotionally gripping story à la Butterfly Effect or get a looper "and not" worry about the countless logic holes ".
"A sometimes dynamic, sometimes hectic mixture of found footage, time travel, science fiction and youth films, which neither narrates nor staged."
"Superficial time travel fantasy that does not exhaust its emotional potential."
“At first, Project Almanac sounds like an entertaining and equally innovative entertainment film, but it stumbles over the tough structure of its plot and always likes to slow itself down. The found footage look could have been left out, then the good beginnings of the film would have developed more. "
Web links
- Official website
- Project Almanac in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Project Almanac . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 416 K).
- ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed September 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Michael Bay's super-secret movie 'Almanac' aka 'Cinema One' begins filming in Atlanta . In: onlocationvacations.com , June 13, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
- ↑ Talent in Michael Bay's Almanac: Atlanta . onesourcetalent.com. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Stephen Losey: Michael Bay apologizes, will cut B-52 crash from film . Retrieved August 18, 2015.
- ↑ Borys Kit: Borys Kit of THR - Tweet . In: twitter.com , March 24, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
- ^ Project Almanac (2015). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on September 28, 2015 (English): "Project Almanac isn't without wit or originality, but its thin story and irritating found-footage camerawork ultimately make it difficult to recommend."
- ^ Project Almanac. Film service , accessed on September 22, 2015 (short review).
- ↑ TV Spielfilm, issue 23/2016, page 198
- ↑ Critique of the filmstarts.de editorial team , accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ Critique of the cinema.de editorial team , accessed on September 29, 2015
- ↑ Critique of the fantasticmovies.de editorial team , accessed on September 29, 2015
