Review 777: Project Hail Mary
The film is based on the novel, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (who also wrote The Martian); Astronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awakens on the spacecraft Hail Mary with no memory of himself or his mission. He deduces he is the sole survivor of a crew sent to the Tau Ceti system to save Earth from disaster. To do so, Grace must rely on his vast array of scientific knowledge, sheer ingenuity and human will, but he soon learns that he is not alone. The film unfolds in a nonlinear fashion and opens with a series of overhead shots as Gosling's Ryland waking up from Project Hail Mary is a film about friendship, communication and how miracles are possible. Project Hail Mary was directed by directing duo Phil Lord & Chris Miller (who's previous work has been primarily comedies such as the 21 Jump Street movies and The Lego Movie, none of which I seem to have reviewed or indeed seen. And considering they were fired from directing Solo (but we don't talk about that)...
