‘Project Hail Mary’ review: Ryan Gosling is caught between a cute rock and a hard place
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If the world is going to end, you couldn’t do worse than send Ryan Gosling to save it. The Canadian movie star has enough charisma to wring joyful whoops from a rock. That’s exactly what he does in Project Hail Mary.
The sci-fi comedy directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – previously of The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street and its sequel – stars Gosling as Ryland Grace, a science teacher who has discovered why the Sun is dimming, which will cause catastrophic global cooling in the future. A microorganism called the Astrophage is at work.
Space mission head Eva (Sandra Huller) persuades a deeply reluctant Grace to be part of a squad that will fix the problem, but at the cost of their lives. Although Grace survives the mission, he’s stranded in space. But he isn’t alone.
A spider-like alien made up of rocks – and immediately christened Rocky – is out there too. Rocky is the only survivor of his destroyed planet. Grace and Rocky join forces to figure out how the Astrophage is to be tamed, and how Earth and Rocky’s home are to be saved.
The geeky entertainer is stuffed with humour, tenderness and irreverence but also overstuffed with indulgence. Drew Goddard’s adaptation of the Andy Weir bestseller...