Movie Review: Project Hail Mary

This coming Sunday is Mothers Day and it is also my 58th birthday.  As a present one of my sons and and my middle daughter took me to Corpus Christi to the AMC theater to see Project Hail Mary.

The movie is based on a book by Andy Weir, the author of "The Martian" which was also made into a film, which starred Matt Damon.

One thing I will acknowledge, is that Andy Weir's use of technology in his works seems to be based on real world theoretical studies.  Both in "The Martian" and in "Project Hail Mary".  Thinking logically about it, it all hangs together.

Now on to the review.

First, I would like to point out a few things which took a lot of my enjoyment out of night out.  The screen time said the show started at 7:15 p.m.  After all of the advertisements and previews it was 7:57 p.m. before the opening credits crawl even started.  And the VOLUME of those previews and advertisements, I am hard of hearing, but I am NOT THAT HARD OF HEARING!!

Sitting in the wheelchair accessible row in the center in my mobility chair, the sound was so loud, it was painful.  Yes, I have frequencies I cannot hear very well.  However there are some frequencies I can hear EXCEPTIONALLY WELL.  And those previews and advertisements cranked to 11 were hitting those frequencies.  I have issues hearing normal speaking frequencies, but I can hear ultrasonic alarms, and infrasound is actually painful for me to hear.  But in the middle where people speak?  That usually sounds like the person speaking is under water or speaking through glass.  And the volume was so loud, it was if I had shoved my head into a speaker cabinet during a heavy metal concert.

Other than that, the theater was very clean, and maintained, the lighting was sufficient to safely navigate to the handicapped seating area without any issues.

All that being said, I will say, that Project Hail Mary is one of the movies I will be buying in both DVD and Blu-Ray format.  The suspension of disbelief, the writing, the acting, the special effects, which were believable, not far fetched, all come together into a coherent whole that I found extremely enjoyable.

I do have just a couple of small quibbles, with things that happened during one of the spacewalks, but they are so minor, unless you were as heavy into space and technology like I have been most of my life, you wouldn't even notice them.  So I don't need to even go further about them.  

All in all, it was and is a very enjoyable movie which has what I consider to be a happy ending, even though it didn't look like it at first.

And YES!  I want a Rocky Plushie.