Movie #975 "Interstellar" is Christopher Nolan's attempt to one up the much revered "2001 Space Odyssey", and technically, it challenges the first one --- this is very good, but for me to no avail. For as long as the film is, it never drew me in emotionally --- yep almost 3 hours of naught. I didn't care for the characters (either not enough info given on them (like the son) or way over the top repetitive crying/yelling/screaming angst (the daughter/Anne Hathaway's character). I usually enjoy watching Matthew M., but this performance seemed all smarmy and preachy ----pacing was off -----way slow in some parts, painfully so, but in others too fast, giving the impression we have so much story to tell so, after all this is an epic film, but never quite got there. This film tried to cover way too much, and I'm not sure John Q. Public would ever understand some of the long passages of dialogue about wormholes. After about an hour, I was laughing at some of the soap operyness of the situations, the characters, the dialogue. I woke up in the third act only because the story started moving at a better pace, and the entrance of the wormhole/blackhole was well done (and rivaled the final scene of "Space Odyssey") ---- I must admit the "saving the world" type of science fiction I really don't enjoy --- the story is in broad terms, usually very preachy, full of didactic moments to fill us in on how we can solve the problem, and usually follows an overdone plot line --- problem defined, people (and audience suffer) and then one man, yes one man, saves the world singlehandedly, usually. Yes, there are some variations here, but they get sticky, and they push the audience away from caring. Sorry, I like Christopher Nolan, but this one, not so much.
Interstellar
From director Christopher Nolan comes this futuristic cosmic odyssey, which follows a band of space explorers who surmount the limits of interstellar travel, using a recently discovered wormhole to pass between dimensions.
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