You really can't hype it all.
I always heard that the book had some special "twist" in it, I heard it so many times that I couldn't help my expectations to be at least present.
But I didn't see it as that big of a twist, maybe books and movies are different, but honestly I thought that was the pretty obvious path that it might take?
So I watched the movie. The technical side of it sucked, not going to lie about that. But the alien was the best part. Oops, is it a spoiler? The poster says it all though. I think everyone knows by now.
SPOILERS:
Technical part: he won't be able to move or think normally after a coma, but the way movie starts.. oof. If not for cinema sins, but for science sins it'll be leading. That vodka after just waking up? Do you know what happens to muscles and the stomach after a coma that lasted this long? And this is just first few minutes.
In what fever dream that setting would be possible I don't know. What? Some organisms threaten the sun? Really? Okay~ as you say~.
It's also very Hollywood like they take a random teacher, who weren't random in his past but who cares (again, very Hollywood-like) to join the Project Hail Mary or a project to save the planet.
I will stop repeating that it's very Hollywood-like because there were too many scenes that are so classic for Hollywood. For example, they only prepare three people for the mission.. Are you kidding me? Shouldn't this be an important mission? Anyway. Why this reminded me of Armageddon while I was typing this..?
A whole bunch of scientists and Grace, who is very good with tape, try to figure things out. What it is, how can we fix it. because this unknown but very potent thing that appeared for unknown reason is killing all stars / planets.
Except for one and this is where our team will be going.
Back to Hail Mary. Grace wakes up from a coma, we remember, and finds out that he's the only one alive. Didn't catch if they ever explained why other two died.
Grace can't remember shit (something that others surely did not take into consideration), but tries to piece any information together. So we follow two timelines, on Hail Mary and memories on Earth.
Honestly, things get more interesting with unexpected contact and that is alien later known as Rocky. Honestly, best character of this movie. Too human for his own good. Rocky's planet faces the same predicament as Earth, so the two try to connect and communicate and later solve things together.
Pretty cute team. Again, skip all the technical stuff.
Technical stuff is replaced with visuals. A lot of cool visuals tbh.
And this is where the shit's about to go down. Of course it would, any part that involves some sort of big thing will always go out of hand, pretty normal if you ask me, no plan is a perfect plan. The only thing I question is how they survived that "taking the sample" part. But it's a movie and they do.
Tbh at this point Rocky is the hero of this movie.
From here everything seemed easy, like returning to the same point, each now getting ready to travel back, because thanks to Rocky, who is a champ, Grace can travel back. And everything went good before there was a leak, the substance they were looking for and sampled "escaped" the container, something that our Earth plastic and tape could fix, but here's the problem, Rocky doesn't know the danger and he has not plastic and tapes. So Grace decides to be a champ too and save his buddy.
Sending samples back to Earth (tbh was not surprised tha they just knocked him off and sent him to the ship, I thought it was obvious, considering one of the team members died in an accident), Grace changes course to Rocky.
Again very American style that everyone survives and everything is solved etc. Rocky and everyone on his planet even created a special place for Grace to live in (how, don't ask) they even fixed his ship. He even teaches small stone spider-like aliens Earth physics class.
Actually the bonding part was really the best part.
The visual part was quite stunning.
The technical side used a lot of conveniences, obviously.
I don't know what I expected. A lot of people hyped it, especially because it became quite a popular pick. Everyone was so secretive about the plot of this novel when I first came across that I thought it had some dark secret, but no. Especially mentioning the twist. At least in the movie the twist was coming way before it happened, so can it be called a twist then?
All in all it was okay. Maybe I unknowingly had high expectations, could have watched it with more leisure if not for the tech part.
RATE: 7/10.
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