Everybody's talking about Project Hail Mary and I love it. I fondly remember the days when you ran into a friend and immediately started talking about the cool movie you just watched. So when a movie gets people talking, that's good by me. Project Hail Mary begins with spaceman Ryan Gosling waking up with no idea where he is or how he got there. Gradually we learn he teaches middle school science and once wrote a paper that impressed the right people years later. He's recruited on a project to save the world from devouring itself. Beyond that, the science mystifies me. But that's ok, sometimes you don't have to understand every plot nuance to enjoy a story. Project Hail Mary looks great - set mostly in space. Along the way, it drops little pieces of plot from other big movies - E.T., 2001, Gravity and many others. Ryan Gosling's a great star for our times --- good looking and modest at the same time. The closest thing he gets to a co-star is a very austere Sandra Huller, a most serious scientist with a talent for karaoke. Gosling's real co-star is a spaceman from another galaxy, destined to steal scenes and win our hearts. Fun and exciting and giant and a little loud and sentimental and cute and scary, Project Hail Mary --- what more do you want in a modern movie?
