IN MY FAVORITE Ryan Gosling film (and probably my favorite Sci-Fi film), he plays a replicant, a humanoid in BladeRunner 2049.  In this film, which is softer Sci-Fi, he plays a brilliant underachiever who “merely” teaches science. When a strange stellar deterioration (sick stars to cut through the science) threatens life in our solar system and beyond, some very serious people show up and cite his published works on highly relevant material.

The rest is imaginative and yet satisfying; any serious Sci-Fi fan will, like any film lover, suspend their disbelief a little in exchange for a story that ventures far from home but never betrays its Earthborn heart.

WRH