Hey! We’re both free for a Monday afternoon cheapo Odeon £5 deal. What crap do you want to watch today? Erm… Project Hail Mary looks like the type of tat that will fill the time. The BONKERS trailer made it look vaguely appealing.
Two and a half hours later and I’m not so sure. Christ, that was a bloody long film. It could have been halved, and still just about made sense.
We made the, ahem, school boy error of going during half term week. Kids ahoy! Even with all the racket going off, I still managed to doze off during the trailers. This didn’t bode well for a two and a half hour epic.
Project Hail Mary is a sci-fi comedy. Surprisingly there’s no romance involved. Instead we have some bromance between Ryan Reynolds' teacher character, and, erm, an alien that looks like a rock. This isn’t one of the great cinematic romances.
The plot is ridiculous. The sun is dying. Reynolds is taken away from the classroom, and placed on a one way trip towards the sun to try and fix things. En route he meets his bromance alien interest. Together they save the world. Or worlds. Or something.
It’s quite a cute watch, although the science angle went completely over my head. It’s not the type of film that you are going to be able to watch at home without reaching for your screen.
SHOUT OUT to the couple who thought it was a good idea to take a toddler to sit through two and a half hours without crying. The little ankle biter managed less than five minutes of silence.