‘SPOILER ALERT’

The film opens in 2050 where a pilot named Adam Reed is flying a jet up in space

He is pursued by a woman named Maya Sorian but Adam flies far enough to open a wormhole, where he disappears

2022, 12-year-old Adam is being chased by school bully Ray Dollarhyde and his buddy Chuck

Ray beats Adam up because Adam has a propensity for making smartass comments

Adam gets suspended and his mother Ellie comes in to chew out the principal

Adam explains to his mother that It wasn’t his fault and Ray was giving him crap in front of the whole class, Adam has lived with Ellie after they lost his father Louis over a year earlier in a car accident

Ellie is going on a date with a coworker and Adam cannot do anything but make snarky comments and be unsupportive towards her

After she leaves their dog Hawking runs outside

Adam follows and finds ashes falling from the sky

He goes into his dad’s garage and finds Big Adam sitting with a bullet wound in his abdomen

When Young Adam tells his older self that he is in 2022 Big Adam realizes he made a mistake

After patching himself up inside the house, Young Adam realizes he is talking to himself as an adult

Big Adam shows Young Adam his ship, that can be activated with his DNA and he stays hidden to rest upو He tells Young Adam that once he returns to his fixed timeline their memories will reconcile, and Young Adam will most likely not remember meeting his older self

big Adam says he just gonna lay down to Let this bullet wound heal, young Adam says this is amazing and big adam orders him to Get back in the house before their mother gets home

After Ellie gets home, Adam meets her date and makes more rude comments leading Ellie to tell her son he’s a jerk sometimes

Outside, Big Adam sees Ellie step outside and he feels bad for her

The next day, young Adam asks Ellie why she is still at home

she says she needs to pay the insurance on the house today and had it in the calendar but she can’t find the statement, and he says It should all be online

she tells him to call if he needs her but he says I won’t

Big Adam goes out with his younger self where big Adam can buy medicine for his wound

outside, Ray and Chuck see Adam and start kicking him

Big Adam goes out, and they run into Ray and Chuck again

Big Adam steps in to encourage Young Adam to go along with the fight with confidence but Ray still beats him up

Big Adam threatens Ray bad enough to make him wet himself and he returns to Young Adam to apologize for letting him go through that

but he tells him that they needed to let it happen or he will not develop into his stronger self as he gets older

Young Adam looks at Big Adam’s phone and sees a photo of his wife Laura but Big Adam doesn’t want to talk about her

Big Adam finds Ellie at a bar where she is talking to the bartender about her issues with her son

Adam offers words of encouragement, assuring Ellie that she is doing a great job and that her son really does love her, she says It sounds like he’s speaking from experience and he says I am, she tells him that he sure has a good mom and he says I have the best mom

after he left, Ellie try to go after him but find nothing

Adam returns home to tell his younger self that Maya who was Louis’s business partner, is in control in the future, since she exploited Louis’s discovery of time travel

Louis created a particle accelerator, The Adam Project and using this Maya has turned the planet into a dystopian hellhole

His original target was 2018, but he missed the mark

She also killed Laura, when she attempted a time jump and Adam knows that she is coming for him

Sure enough, Maya sends her goons plus her right-hand man Christos

The villains find the Adams outside and Big Adam takes out his special weapon and fights the henchmen, who disintegrate because they died outside of their fixed time

Christos comes out to fight Adam but they are saved by Laura appearing from the woods

After taking out more henchmen, she drives them through the woods, where Big Adam kills two more thugs

Laura brings the Adams to a cabin to hide out

She tells them that she tried to jump to 2018 because Maya had already gone back in time to manipulate the timeline and make herself successful

she tells Big Adam that they cannot stay there and he has to finish the mission to 2018

Adam tearfully parts with Laura again and drives his younger self to find his ship

Christos goes after them, but Laura holds him back with a landmine though it doesn’t kill him

The Adams get in the ship and fly away, but Maya kills Laura and then goes after them

She knows that Adam only has one jump left and there’s no other way for him to get back to his timeline and the two decide to jump to 2018

In 2018, the Adams find Louis teaching a class

After the students leave Louis quickly pieces together, that he is talking to his son as an adult as well as a version that is four years older than the one that he already lives with

Big Adam explains to his dad, that time travel is real thanks to him and Maya has betrayed him for her own gain

They ask for Louis’s help, but he doesn’t want to do anything else, that can negatively affect the timelines

Big Adam gets angry with Louis and hits him and Louis hits back

He tells his younger self that Louis was never a good dad, and that he only cared more about his work than his own son

The Adams go back to the cabin where Young Adam tells his older self that he thinks Big Adam is angry with Louis because he is angry about his death, and it is easier to be mad at him than to grieve him

Louis goes back home to Ellie and 8-year-old Adam

He wonders if Adam seems sad but Ellie gives him reassurance

Meanwhile, Maya finds her younger self once again, after previously using her when she time-jumped the first time

She warns her that Adam will be her biggest problem

The Adams resolve to go to Maya’s company and shut the accelerator down themselves

Young Adam uses a special drone to deal with more henchmen but

Louis shows up after changing his mind saying they can grab the hard drive that contains his algorithm for time travel

Big Adam goes inside with Louis, while Maya’s ship appears behind Young Adam

Adam and Louis make it to the accelerator but the Mayas show up, along with Christos and the henchmenm holding Young Adam at gunpoint

At his older self’s encouragement he causes the villains to fire a shot at the accelerator’s electromagnetic shield

The accelerator begins to destabilize, and the heroes fight the villains

Christos gets knocked into the accelerator, while Maya orders Louis to give up the hard drive

When he refuses, she fires an armor-piercing round to kill them  but the shield pulls the bullet toward the younger Maya killing her and causing the older Maya to disintegrate  and be erased from the future

The guys then flee the building as the accelerator blows up

The three return home, Louis acknowledges that he is going to die, and that it will hurt his son but he asks them not to tell him when or how it happens

He reassures Big Adam, that he is proud of him and he hugs both versions of his son

Knowing they are set to return to their own timelines and Big Adam tells Young Adam to be a better son to Ellie

They then play catch with Louis, one last time before they return

Back in 2022, Adam starts showing more love to Ellie

Years later, Adam in college meets Laura when she walks to the wrong classroom, and he offers to walk her to the right building.

The Adam Project.