"Hunky high school science teacher Dr Ryland Grace, played with seductive, unruffled good humour by Ryan Gosling, wakes up from his induced coma on this spacecraft, with wacky long hair, straggly beard and zero memory of why he is aboard. The rest of the crew are dead, and Grace must now figure out how he got there and how to rescue humanity."
"The whole thing settles on Dr Grace's bromance, or humanalienmance, with a friendly spider-shaped alien with stony bodyparts nicknamed Rocky who conveniently saves the day, scuttling about the place like ET and whose communication is rendered by Dr Grace's software into Hulkspeak: Rocky fix, Rocky help etc."
"Weir wrote The Martian, the basis for Ridley Scott's movie with Matt Damon, and this has the same cheerful, breezy humour and tonal commitment to unseriousness; this for me meant Project Hail Mary was funny ha-ha and funny peculiar at the same time."
Project Hail Mary follows Dr. Ryland Grace, a brilliant molecular biologist turned high school teacher, who awakens from an induced coma aboard a spacecraft with no memory of how he arrived. The rest of the crew is dead, and Grace must uncover his purpose and save humanity from extinction caused by alien microbes dimming the sun. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the film balances serious stakes with comedic tone, featuring Ryan Gosling's charming performance. Grace develops an unlikely partnership with Rocky, a spider-shaped alien whose communication is translated into simple language. Flashbacks reveal how Grace was recruited by German technocrat Eva Stratt for this last-ditch mission to rescue Earth.
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