‘The Adam Project’ review: Ryan Reynolds’ sappy time travel fail

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Ryan Reynolds vehicle on Netflix about a time traveler who meets his kid self. The film is drowning in sap.You yawn through the uninspired action sequences — just 30 years from now we apparently will wield cheap-looking lightsaber rip-offs — and then are nauseated by over-dramatic exchanges such as this:Running time: 106 minutes.

Rated PG-13 (violence/action, language and suggestive references.) On Netflix.Character 1: “But what about your future?”Character 2: “YOU’RE MY FUTURE!”Subtle, guys.The tip-off that “Adam Project,” which at one point was set to star Tom Cruise, would end up as suburban tweedom with spaceships is the casting of wholesome Jennifer Garner as the mom of 12-year-old Adam (Walker Scobell).

He’s been bullied at school since his physics professor dad died, and his mom is beginning to date again. One night when Adam is home alone, a stranger shows up in the backyard shed, and we quickly learn that the intruder is Big Adam (Reynolds) from three decades down the line.Letting us know Big Adam’s identity from the onset is a huge mistake because it gives the pair nowhere to go.

It’s like if Darth Vader dropped “I am your father” in the first scene of “Star Wars.” From there, the movie isn’t much more than Reynolds doing his usual spastic shtick while a preteen mimics him.Big Adam’s goal was to hop back to 2018 to destroy time travel and prevent the death of his wife (Zoe Saldana) at the hands of Maya, an anodyne villain played by Catherine Keener.