Review of Interstellar (2014) by Emod L — 10 Jan 2016

This bizarre turn of form from Nolan results in a film that oozes dramatic intent but lacks characters that it's easy to care about. Much of the dialogue varies between the bland and bizarrely timed pseudo meaningful speeches.

Nolan's direction doesn't come to the rescue either as it works more on artistic presentation than good story telling. What is really shocking is that, in a film with a name such as this, the presentation somehow completely fails to give any sense of distance to the journey, partly aided by poor pacing .

The action also has some bizarre turns where you don't really know what's going on until after it's done (see the planet with all the water scene). Therefore, most of this film rolls back on waiting for people to simply say what is going on as it's otherwise not being conveyed.

So yes, this is a big incomprehensible and underwhelming mess with an ending that tries to cleverly exposition it's way out of just being a cliche'd let down. I would only recommend it on the basis of it's intrigue and atmosphere in the first half before it starts to fall apart, but fall apart it does.