Title: Project Hail Mary
Length: 2h 36m
Released: 2026
Rating: PG-13
Where I Got It: Drive-In Theater
SUMMARY:
A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing Earth's sun, and realizes that an unexpected friendship may be the key.
REVIEW:
Whoopsies. Meant to post this last week....eee!
Anyways...
Soooo I wasn't even excited to watch this. I'm so picky with my SciFi, and I feel like so many are just carbon copies of each other. However, the group wanted to stay and watch it, so I stayed too. ANNNND I was pleasantly surprised.
Okay - so the story takes place in the future-ish. A science teacher wakes up alone on a ship and can't remember where or why he is there. He keeps getting flashbacks of his time on Earth. As he starts piecing together what happened, he realizes... it is up to him to save Earth. He is literally the last chance to figure out how to stop this mysterious substance from killing their Sun. This substance is killing all the stars, but one, and that is where he is headed. Along the way, he will team up with someone...something...unexpected.
Okay. Okay. I take it back. I thought this was going to be boring and just a carbon copy. This was fresh and fun. Yes, Earth is in peril, but the movie still had some humor. It felt like real life in a weird way. Yes, dark and gloomy and scary, BUT there are good moments.
I LOVED Rocky. Best character of the year. I would burn the Earth for him.
The cast was lovely. Our main was great...as usual. Awkward and adorable. Adorkable, some might say.
The science-y parts were not too science-y, and I appreciated that. I hate when SciFi gets too lost in the details. Sure, I'm sure some science lovers wanted more "details". But meh. They balanced it well. Science stuff and then stuff for non-science people. Everyone can enjoy this.
Some scenes could've been snipped and trimmed a little bit. Some dragged on a bit too long.
The ending was lovely, and I would've liked to see more.
All-in-all, I was pleasantly surprised by this film! I went in a negative Nancy and came out wanting to watch this movie again. WHA? Yes! I'll watch it again. It was fun. Some scenes needed a bit of snipping to help the story along, but I liked it overall. 4 stars from me.
8 comments:
I want to read this and then see the movie.
Anne - Books of My Heart
Oh really!? I will watch it one day then
The book is SOOOOO amazing. I think this is a very good adaptation. Glad you enjoyed it. I also loved the movie - but the book is amazing.
Anne, I do want to read the book methinks.
B, it was good! I was shocked!
Jen, one day I shall read the book!
I haven't read the book yet, but hubby wanted to see it so I dove in and loved it (yay a Rocky fan here, too). Now must go back for the book.
Same here!
Rocky puppet was a good use; "faces are overrated"
I was a huge UFO buff when I was a child because I loved flying saucers/aliens and everything that had to do with them. I had many UFO books (though I was too young to understand that supposedly there were "real" stories), watched 2005's War of the Worlds often and watched so many UFO documentaries that I watched so often the spine broke. Nowadays, as I get older, your critical thinking sharpens. You realize that real history, coupled with the incredible real-world social history of how the "flying saucer" mythos was constructed, is vastly more interesting than the sensationalized claims on television. It is easy now to mock the concpet, yet still appericate the stories that surround them.
One thing can’t be denied: if it wasn’t for the UFO phenomenon exploding in the late 1940s, we probably wouldn’t have had great sci fi genres, from Star Trek, Doctor Who, Captain Scarlet, Gerry Anderson’s UFO, the 1953 War of the Worlds, The Day the earth stood still, and every classic 50s b film. I used to be a UFO buff as a kid. Even when you grow out of it, there can be no denying that the phenomenon probably had an influence on various classic films and shows.
Of course, the infamous "ancient aliens" doesn’t count, not even in a “so bad, it’s good” way. I can’t believe I used to believe everything about that show at 14 years old…
10000%. I can't imagine not having this genre. We have gotten some good stories out of it.
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