Project Hail Mary, the 2026 movie

Project Hail Mary is a 2026 movie which I would recommend watching, because it is (overall) very well-made (well written, scripted, directed, edited, visuals etc) and also enjoyable - often funny, and emotionally powerful in several points.

Note: The movie is adapted from a book of the same name by Andy Weir, author of The Martian, which I regard as a first rate work of "hard" sci fi and in a new genre. However, I have not read the book of PHM; so this is a review of the movie qua movie.  

Further note: There are some generic spoilers here; so I would recommend watching the movie naïve to what I (or anybody else) says about it - which is what I did.  

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No mistake, Project Hail Mary is a successful movie, an impressive example of the craft.

Nonetheless I give it four, not five, stars; because it is too long, employs too much "Pork Pie peril", and ends... well, if not exactly badly, then it ends significantly sub-optimally given the implicit and unavoidable requirements of the story.  

Nonetheless; when a very expensive mainstream movie is strongly-hyped and accorded unanimous mainstream critical praise, we can be sure that this accolade is not because of the film's virtues, but because it is believed to progress the Establishment agenda in one or several ways. 

The main way this is accomplished is in PHM presenting a wholly artificial, un-natural, representational, computer-interfaced, "AI" virtual-reality Life - as not just adequate, but capable of being the basis for a Good Life. 

So, PHM "shows" the watcher the "sufficiency" of a materialistic non-spiritual life consisting of only things that we enjoy and give us pleasure - a life-experience tailored, indeed, to suit our individual preferences in a way that "real life" never is. 

Clearly, this is supportive of both the Great Reset/ Agenda 2030 globalist totalitarian plan (or "incentive" for willing compliance - because of course the reality of "15 minute" "pod-person" permanent-lockdown cities is not honestly being offered.) 

And the movie, overall, just assumes as a fact the vast functional benefits of the "AI"/ Robots that are (since late 2022) being tera-dollar subsidized and coercively-imposed; top-down and at mega- and micro-levels pervasively; in By Far the biggest and most expensive totalitarian project of all time. 

Part of this was the false picture of Big Science as meritocratic, functionally-directed, well-motivated, and highly competent; in aims and actuality. 

Whereas the reality of Big Science (here-and-now and for several decades) is one of extreme dishonesty, corruption, and incompetence; driven by inverted-values.     

Secondly; PHM represents a Man without any family or friends who finds a genuinely loving friendship with an alien being. 

Thereby offering this "possibility" (or, the "thought-form" of this possibility) as an optimistic yearning, a positive day-dream, to the alienated masses of (especially) Western Men... 

An optimistic day-dream for those many who regard themselves as lacking any satisfactory this-world loving-relationship with an earthly being - whether human, animal, plant, or whatever... 

(The direct relevance of this fantasy may become evident if/when a suitable alien contact or invasion is simulated by the globalist totalitarians - as has often been suggested may be Their genuine intent.) 

Such are some reflections on Project Hail Mary - not so much while I was immersed-in the world it created, but afterwards - looking back on it, and the ways it "made" me feel.

My attitude towards the better examples mainstream popular art is not one of strict avoidance, because there may be much to enjoy and to learn; but to enjoy and learn with awareness of the fact (and I regard it as A Fact) that those who funded, produced and disseminated such works have absolutely-malign reasons for doing so. 

In conclusion; IMO there is a genuinely sinister covert agenda at work here, at the level of assumptions, framing, and in the distortion involved in imposing the actual ending - i.e. on the ending that the deep nature of the story truly implied ought to be the ending. 

But - exactly because Project Hail Mary is an effective and pleasurable movie - there are (there must be) plenty else going-on that is positive and wholesome, and fun; which I why I recommend it for "people who like this sort of thing".