Project Almanac

2015 Directed by Dean Israelite

Today is better the second time around

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

Jonny Weston Virginia Gardner Sofia Black-D'Elia Sam Lerner Allen Evangelista Amy Landecker Gary Weeks Gary Grubbs Patrick Johnson Hillary Harley Anthony Reynolds Agnes Mayasari Katie Garfield Michelle DeFraites Fred Galle Joshua Brady Macsen Lintz

Alternative Titles

Welcome to Yesterday, Bienvenidos al Ayer, Проект Альманах, Cinema One, Sveiki atvykę į praeitį!, Almanac, Projeto Almanaque, Bienvenidos al ayer, בחזרה לאתמול, Proyecto Almanac, Project Almanac - Benvenuti a ieri

thriller drama science fiction

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Review by Mikael Stånggren ★★½ 8

- Marty! You've gotta come back with me!
- Where?
- Back to the future.
- Whoa, wait a minute, Doc. What are you talking about? What happens to us in the future? What, do we become assholes or something?
- No, no, no, no, no, Marty. Both you and Jennifer turn out fine. It's your kids, Marty. Something's gotta be done about your kids! They've made a run-of-the-mill found footage movie with plot holes the size of Michael Bay's ego!
- Michael Bay? Found footage? You're getting me a little confused here, Doc.
- Not as confused as you'll be at the end of the movie.
- This is heavy, Doc. Are you sure we have brains enough to comprehend the films of the future? I mean, if they're this smart now, imagine how cerebral they'll be 30 years from now.
- Brains? Where we're going, we don't need brains.
Review by Graham J ★½ 6

There's a moment in Project Almanac when a lead character goes way back in time to his childhood...
It's 2004!!
Fuck!!!!!!!! I'd already left home by then! I was two years away from meeting my wife! I was already thinking about pensions!
Nothing and I mean NOTHING has ever made me feel so old.
The film itself is a rabid monkey in a cage, it's truly and utterly wild. It has the most hyperactive camera work in cinema history; it simply never sits still and crosses a line - it becomes extremely irritating.
I can only hope this director never works again.

2004! fuck.
Review by Esteban Gonzalez ★★★

“Before the world ends, I’d like to time travel.”
Dean Israelite’s feature film debut, Project Almanac, is a time traveling sci-fi found footage movie centering on a group of nerdy teens who discover blueprints for a time machine and decide to try and build one. The problem I have with found footage films isn’t necessarily the shaky camera, but the lack of commitment to fully relying on the found footage. There are scenes where these friends are together and supposedly everything is filmed by one of them, but during the middle of a conversation we see different edits and cuts. There are other moments where they are zooming in on two characters having a normal conversation with each other from…
Review by Wesley R. Ball ★ 3

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and stop myself from watching this sad excuse of a movie.
Review by Connor Carey ★★

If i had to describe Project Almanac in a word, it would be inconsistent. At times this movie is painfully boring and moves at the pace of a snail mainly in the first half but at other points its actually pretty fun and entertaining. Aside from that theres also some huge plot holes and the characters just aren't that interesting. However that being said, there is some fun to be had and i actually really enjoyed the final act of this movie so its definitely not a train wreck or even that bad of a movie, its just very mediocre. If you're interested in seeing this, then I would say wait for dvd.
Review by Austin Gorski ★★★½

Entertaining enough and surprisingly well-acted, but it's pretty predictable and kind of sexist, but that's to be expected when Michael Bay is on board as a producer. But like I said, I did enjoy this film; it's much better than most January flicks and even though it aims towards the MTV-crowd, it doesn't dumb it down for them, which I appreciated.
Review by Recycled Sparks ½ 9

I need a time machine to go back and tell myself not to watch this crappy movie.
Review by Matthew L. Brady ★★★

For once a movie produce by Michael Bay that didn't turn out to be the biggest stink pile of the year, to my surprise.
The story is about an old tape of a birthday party that seems to confirm time travel, a group of teens actually construct their own machine... but as they change the past for their betterment - it wrecks havoc on the world and the only way to stop it may be to make sure the machine never comes to be - no matter the cost.
To those people who are sick of found footage movies, well you are not alone. Year after year, you get the same formal of found footage movie and that's why I…
Review by TajLV ★★★½ 2

"I'm not gonna go and play God with you guys." ~ Adam Le
What's the difference between building a time machine in 1985 and building one 30 years later? Instead of using a Delorean, you stuff all the equipment into a backpack. Otherwise, if you are teenager, you still have the same pretty simple ideas about how you might change the past. For example, pass the test you failed, get revenge on the mean girl who bullied you, win a million dollars playing the lottery, and take your friends to Lollapalooza to see Imagine Dragons, the best Vegas band ever!
I understand a lot of folks did not like the found footage approach used by director Dean Israelite in his…
Review by Mr. DuLac ★½

So you're telling me dad left a time machine in the basement?
-Christina Raskin
Yes, Christina, you're father left a god damn time machine in the basement and even though he's been dead for a decade no one bothered to clean up his junk downstairs despite the fact it takes up almost the entire sub-level of a house your mother can't even afford.
If you get the feeling I was irritated by this film you'd be right. Five teenagers find a time machine and spend half the film struggling to think of ways to use it. So they end up fixing a failed test and going to Lolla-God-Damn-palooza. Did I mention it's a found footage film?
If you want to…
Review by A. J. Black ★½ 4

You can't go wrong with time travel. Unless you're Project Almanac, which takes a perfectly decent premise and lets Michael Bay get his grubby mitts over the production. Dean Israelite apparently directs but whoever he is, you feel the looming spectre of Bay's sledgehammer approach to subtlety all over this found footage picture, one that does absolutely nothing new with what is now a very well worn genre looking for new ideas, fresh approaches, one which Almanac could have been with its lo-fi approach to time travel, centred as it is around Jonny Weston's young MIT wannabe inventor who, thanks to accidentally witnessing a predestination paradox of himself at his own kids birthday party, ends up happening upon time travel…
Review by Andrès Hernández ★½ 2

This film look like a bad joke

Recent reviews

Review by luisvelasquez ★★★

Es entretenida e interesante
Lo único malo es que odie cuando el protagonista trato de arreglar todo por su cuenta metiéndose en problemas mayores
Review by Jorge Riveira ★★★

Es inteligente porque sabe dónde se sitúa dentro del género. El aspecto vlogero le da un toque distinto, pero a mí no acaba de convencerme. Me ha sorprendido, me esperaba algo bastante peor y el resultado ha sido una aventura adolescente bastante entretenida.
Review by Vladimir Rubrico ★★

eto yung film na sobrang na-enjoy mo talaga pero ampanget. I dunno, 'cause of the actors ba or mismong plot? SKSKSKSKSKSKAKSK 😭
Review by unmountable ★★

Der Film startet und ich kotze erstmal, dass es ein Found-Footage-Movie ist. Ekelhafter Trend den Blair Witch Project damals losgetreten hat und ich hätte gedacht, dass wir den 2015 hinter uns gehabt hätten. Aber nö: Wackelkamera, wilde Kameraschwenks, Figuren nur halb im Bild - alles dabei. Ich warte noch drauf, dass ich jemanden kennen lerne, der diese Art Film geil findet.
Im Grunde will ich schon zum Telefon greifen um beim Gucken im Internet zu surfen, da ich bei der epileptischen Kameraführung eh kaum was erkennen kann, aber dann merke ich, dass es um Zeitreisen gheht und bin doch wieder interessiert.
Irgendwann merke ich dann, dass die Story einfach nur von Butterfly Effect abgekupfert wurde. Nur haben sie diese Story uninteressanter und schlechter hinbekommen. Ich denke beim Gucken die ganze Zeit, dass sie bestimmt noch eine frische Wendung reingebaut haben und irgendwas anderes spannendes. Aber nope: Es bleibt ein öder Schüttelkamera-Butterfly-Effect-Abklatsch.
Review by DER Schmidt ★★½

---- Zuviel Wackelkamera
--- Zuviel Woo-Hoo
-- Zuviel Teenagergehabe
- Zuviele überstürtzte Aktionen
Der Film ist einfach etwas nervend!
Review by elElmer ★★★

Pretty entertaining and a interesting concept.
The climax was so concerning.
But I think it became ridiculous at some point.
Review by keybee ★

Zeitreise Popmärchen. Mäßige Story um eine Gruppe von Teenies die nur Zeitreisen um persönliche Probleme zu lösen. Nervige Wackelhandykamera.
Review by Siraa ★★★

Saya suka dengan film tipikal seperti Project Almanac ini, film yang sejak awal tidak menjadikan penontonnya untuk menaruh ekspektasi yang tinggi, kemudian ketika ia hadir ia tidak mencoba menampilkan segala sesuatu dengan upaya utama untuk memberi impresi agar mereka tampak pintar, film yang bahkan tanpa malu-malu dengan berani melakukan hal-hal konyol yang akan membuat penonton bergumam “stupid”, tapi juga membuat anda bergumam “yeah, itu hiburan yang baik” ketika ia telah berakhir terlepas dari hal-hal minus yang baru saja ia ciptakan. Project Almanac: process, hit and miss, but still an okay simple and stupid time-travel adventure.
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Project Almanac pada akhirnya berhasil menyajikan sebuah hiburan yang menarik. Simplicity dengan eksekusi yang berani, mungkin itu jawaban paling sederhana. sutradaranya seperti tidak takut…
Review by adamwendt ★★★★★

Greatest movie ever maybe
Review by Thays Sosi ★★★★

Com certeza nunca viram 'De volta para o futuro' para saber das consequências de mexer com o passado e interagir com sua versão do passado. Eu gostei, achei muito maneiro a forma que exploraram a viagem no tempo, sou suspeita de falar pois amo filmes sobre viagem no tempo, acho fascinante. Eu gostei bastante desse por explorar isso de um passado não tão distante, a forma que eles se preocupam em voltar apenas meses e não vários anos achei bem inovadora. Pois sempre o viajante quer voltar mil anos atrás e isso não ocorreu aqui, por mais que o David quisesse voltar ao seu aniversário de 7 anos, as causas e consequências foram bem interessantes até chegar a esse determinado ponto. Veria novamente com certeza, me cativou muito e o final com certeza foi o melhor do filme.
Review by sturzraum ★★★½

O crush pela Sofia Black-D'Elia continua fodidamente forte. E esse assunto, sobre viagem no tempo e tudo mais, sempre me cativou. Não à toa Efeito Borboleta é meu filme favorito. O Mateus, inclusive, disse que Projeto Almanaque era um Efeito Borboleta melhorado, e eu ri. Obviamente Projeto Almanaque é muito bom, mas não dá pra comparar com uma obra-prima, com um clássico. Enfim. Eu gostei bastante. Me deixou angustiado e tenso como da primeira vez. 3,5 estrelinhas.
Review by preethisridhar ★★★★★

underrated!!! super interested if you are into science fiction movies