Panorama of the MountainsMovie Review: Project Hail Mary (2026)
Title: Project Hail Mary
Release Date: March 20, 2026
Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Lord Miller Productions | Pascal Pictures | Open Invite Entertainment | Waypoint Entertainment
Main Cast:
- Ryan Gosling as Ryland Grace
- Sandra Hüller as Eva Stratt
- James Ortiz as Rocky
- Lionel Boyce as Carl,
- Ken Leung as Yao Li-Jie
- Milana Vayntrub as Olesya Ilyukhina
- Priya Kansara as the voice of Mary
- Malachi Kirby as Martin Dubois
- Liz Kingsman as Annie Shapiro
- Mia Soteriou as Dr. Browne
- Orion Lee as Dr. Li
- Michelle Greenidge as Chimamanda
Synopsis (via Letterboxd):
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.
My Thoughts:
An astronaut awakes on a ship in deep space with amnesia and discovers that the other two crew members are dead. In a flashback we learn that an organism called an astrophage is consuming the Sun and other stars in the galaxy. Ryland Grace is part of a “hail Mary” mission to the one star that is unaffected by the astrophage. As he attempts to complete the mission, Grace encounters another spaceship and meets it’s occupant, a five-legged rock-like creature he calls “Rocky,” the only survivor of his planet’s mission to the same star. Grace and Rocky share knowledge and technology and work together to find a solution to the astrophage forming a deep bond in the process.
Project Hail Mary has a lot of antecedents: the grandeur of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the heartwarming aspects of Spielberg/Amblin films of the 70s & 80s, and the expert must find solutions to avert a global catastrophe plot of Interstellar and Arrival. For all that it feels refreshingly original and hopeful. The movie benefits from the extensive use of practical effects for the spaceship and puppetry for Rocky. The one aspect I didn’t like is that Grace is an outsider in the scientific community due to his unorthodox views and thus works as a middle school science teacher before being recruited for the Hail Mary program. This feeds into the tired maverick renegade knows best trope, when Grace’s would’ve had enough challenges even as a trained astronaut. It also adds a lot to the run time in extensive flashback scenes.
Apart from that, Project Hail Mary is a delight and is well on the way to becoming a classic of the genre.
Rating: ****
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