Expectations have not been high for Dean Israelite’s feature
directorial debut, Project Almanac. The Michael
Bay-produced, teen-centric, found footage time travel film, formerly titled
Welcome to Yesterday, has been pushed back and delayed multiple
times, ultimately dropped at the tail end of January, and beginning late last
week there was even rapid scramble to excise a two-second clip from the movie
and the promotional material—it featured footage of a real life plane crash,
which incensed families of the casualties. The deck is certainly stacked
against this one, but despite all of that, as well as being totally
predictable, Project Almanac is actually a decent amount of
fun.
