3. Project Almanac
The Promise Back To The Future meets Chronicle as a genius kid completes a time machine invented by his Dad and uses it to progressively change the future, solving each problematic break in the timeline to try and give himself the perfect future. Inevitably - as with all meddling with the timeline that isn't done by Marty McFly or Doc Brown - the results are terrible and life altering in the wrong way. The Problem The found footage genre should take its jerky camera and bugger off, firstly. It's a tired gimmick that adds nothing but poor production qualities to a film to cover a smaller budget that should otherwise be hidden with actual artistry and innovation. The real issue though is scale: instead of going back in time to stop himself from wiping himself out, the agenda appears to borrow from teen movies and Hot Tub Time Machine, where the goal is to get laid and party better. Sure the stakes rise, but it's too much of a thin story to really capture the attention and the format they chose to shoot in becomes tiresome even quicker than the repetitive story.