While Project Hail Mary is very much a space-set sci-fi and involves a heck of a lot of real, hypothetical and fictitious jargon and dire situations, it has something that we don’t always see in a film of this genre: humour and a reluctant hero. Does this mix of comedy and sci-fi work for a film that is so science-heavy and make it entertaining, or does it come across as mis-matched and difficult to believe in?

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