“Project Hail Mary” (** out of four) was an interminable sci/fi melodrama about a science teacher (Ryan Gosling) who wakes up alone on a spaceship in outer space with no memories of how he got there; while trying to piece together memories from his past, he then discovers a plot to affect Earth’s future. Some scattered effective moments and Gosling’s usual likeable performance are swallowed up by film’s meandering nature and overlength at nearly three hours. Yet another space opera that cannot escape the classic shadow of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”