"Believe in the Hail Mary."
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.
Ryan Gosling
Ryland Grace
Sandra Hüller
Eva Stratt
James Ortiz
Rocky (voice)
Lionel Boyce
Carl
Milana Vayntrub
Olesya Ilyukhina
Ken Leung
Yao
Priya Kansara
Mary (voice)
Mia Soteriou
Dr. Browne
Annelle Olaleye
Olivia
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.
Boring, waist of time. poor excuse for sci fi. pixar joke movie for kids maybe. but thought provoking, intelligent sci fi it is not. From the first scene, the slap stick tone sets the scene for the whole movie. was the director too scared of space where no one hears you scream? The dual timeline didnt work. the main character seemed like two different characters. it didn't ring true on any level. This film is nowhere near the likes of Interstella, Arrival or Moon. Its lego movie is space. such a shame. a real misfire. Give it a miss. too long to be worth your time.
This movie is not perfect, but is is tense, and abstract, and deeply funny. It is essentially a one-person narrative with some cgi to act with, and Ryan pulls it off well. The story is strange and intriguing, as is the companion protagonist, making the movie very enjoyable. It is just a fun sci-fi adventure/buddy-movie, and I can highly recommend it.
3 out of ALL stars! A very unpleasant movie. During marketing it was presented as 'sophisticated' science fiction evoking Interstellar. In execution it's like Jim Hanson's Interstellar, an episode of 80s Sesame Street with a money-press budget. Mistake? Confusion? Narcotics? Nefarious nihilism? You decide. A high-brow european actress known for dramatic roles was cherry-picked into a non-descript role, hired to maintain the 'sophisticated' science fiction impression. Scenes with melodrama, gravitas and pathos interchange with scenes of Muppet Show buffoonery like in a throughly shuffled deck of cards. The ship's computer is less competent than Robbie the Robot and serves as another buffoony puppet alongside Gossling - you read that right, ohoho. Gossling spends half of the movie doing a Will Ferrel level SNL impression of a kind drunk trucker in full kind-drunk-trucker getup. Nothing wrong with kind drunk truckers, especially when parked in rest-stops, they are the red blood cells of the nation! But doing an overstayed impression of one to both fill time and appeal to ALL is rude lazyness masquarading as machiavellism. In fact least puppety is Rocky, who shows most charachter depth and is easiest to sympathize with as a skilled alien faced with the incompetence porn that surrounds him. A movie about how to build a box around a box for darkness in a high-security facility using ad placement store-with-home-utility materials, even though said box is already in a large room that is in fact a box, the lights of which can be switched off. A movie about selecting an everyman teacher for his supressed brilliance, which quickly turns out to be incorrect, for no one to ever mention it is in fact correct upon meeting Rocky, a non-water based lifeform. A movie where a single person staffs an advanced high security lab while all others are baseball hat ordering onlookers/foremen watching that one municipal worker shovel and dig. A movie about sun-eating cells that are made mostly, or to quote Gossling 'ENTIRELY' out of water yet are able to live both in the freezing cold of space and atomizing heat of the sun, that they EAT. A movie with an advanced robot assistant that tries to shave you with a brand placement hand-held shaver. A movie where half of it is made from colorful tiktok reels of Ryan Gossling dancing or bobbing as a kind trucker, but far less competent. A movie where an advanced explorative alien science vessel is less capable of outer-atmosphere flybys than a rickety bucket that tries to shave you with a rechargeable shaver, inside which everyone but the Goss died for reasons™. A movie that gets more boring the higher you get - a true rarity. A movie that makes you feel stupid for trying to count all it's incompetent nonsense. A movie of today.
3/10 roentgen, not great, not terrible. The premise is absurd and completely lacking credibility and that shows in the performances - the actors are there to read their lines and be done with it. The worst is, of course, the inconvincing and unrelatable replay by Gosling of what we've seen in another hundred of similar movies. Sci-fi is not his thing, really, neither is hugging. The plot is linear, predictable and truly boring. The brief socio-political excursion into earth politics is also trite, preachy and boring and without nuance. Not even good enough for a long-haul flight.
There is something about stories set in outer space that make me feel hopeful of the possibilities of this outer space film productions that science fiction directors often hint at. This was definitely an incredible experience that I would go as far to compare to the experience I had watching Interstellar. Gosling and Huller have incredible chemistry in this and look to be conternders for next years academy awards despite the films early release. Unfortunately I was not able to experience this on an IMAX screen (because it is not available in our country) nor was I able to see it on the biggest screen in our country but I still felt that same outer world experience you get from such productions.
missed a few key-ish moments from the book but thats totally understandable and it still works great. similar comment about Stratt's character but again not deal breaking. I'm gonna spend my entire life shouting about practial effects because I am convinced they make every movie better and make them feel so much more human and cared for and thought through - what they did for this was sooo cool and I love it sm
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