Before its March 20 release, “Project Hail Mary” was shown to participants in the film press. According to early reviews, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s science fiction comedy is a “must-see space odyssey” and might be a “major awards player” when the Oscars roll around next year.
Adriano Caporusso, a critic, also gave the movie excellent reviews on X. He added, ““Lord & Miller’s latest plays up a ‘Short Circuit’ bromance to an hysterical extreme while simultaneously delivering a pulse-pounding space epic that brings true humanity to the centrestage, but not without some jaw-dropping visuals alongside.”
Barry Hertz, the Globe & Mail film writer, expressed some concerns over the “Project Hail Mary” on X, but they were insufficient to overshadow Ryan Gosling’s “galaxy-sized charms.”
“Not quite faster-than-light script with too many endings and one crucial plot point that evaporates, plus a seeming corporate obligation to Amazon’s ROCKY catalogue, cannot suppress the galaxy-sized charms of Ryan Gosling,” he penned. “‘INTERSTELLAR’ without all the ~stuff~.”
The appreciation was repeated by TV host Jeff Conway, who wrote on X, “A successfully sophisticated blend of humor, sci-fi, drama and suspense. Ryan Gosling is the shining star of this compassionate story about connection and defying the odds, while Sandra Hüller is the tender heart of this beautiful film.”
The movie, which is based on Andy Weir’s 2021 novel, features Ryan Gosling as intelligent schoolteacher Ryland Grace, who awakens on a spacecraft light-years from Earth by himself and has no memory of how he got there. He reconstructs an absurd scheme that took him across the galaxy to prevent a mysterious creature from blacking out the sun as his memory returns.
