Isn't this a badly produced scientific Mary Sue fiction?

Rating: 1/10 (24 March 2016)

Weren't for my paranoia of having to finish a movie that I have started, I would have changed the channel at the second time that Ellie yelled at somebody (I believe it was when she confronted the panel for funding; I was like, "come on, did she pass her defense like that?!"), or at least the repeating "I'm ready to go (I muted the TV for some time.)" It's unbelievably superficial, characters one-dimensional, catering to every stereotype that people have to science, academia, religion and so on so forth. Maybe the only truth about science in this is that it's so hard for scientists to get funded.
As what I have seen, the story is about a genius woman scientist, Ellie, graduated from Caltech (not strange if we consider that those people helped bring about Interstellar) with support only from her teammates (all men), especially a nice gentle blind guy, and from a, well, priest(?), fighting (yelling?) her way up to be the first human getting contact with extraterrestrial life.
Something really really annoyed me was how Ellie, and people around her, talked about "truth" and what is "right" in such a definitive way. A normal scientist doesn't really claim a conclusion is a truth, but she claims it's not yet proved the other way. So "when two theory can equally explain the phenomenon the simpler one tends to be ACCEPTED" instead of a simple "right," since nobody ever know if a theory is going to be disproved in the future. It seems to me that Ellie simply relied on her faith of what truth is instead of professional standards, such as, peer review. And as long as she yelled about some imagination and global picture, instead of showing evidence and reasoning, "reasonable" people were convinced while others were either stupid or villainous. Well, I think that the crew might simply wanted to simplify it so lay people can understand, like lay people are stupid. I also can't believe that one single head-person of national academy of sciences could straightforwardly cut a huge project while its funding was not expired and they did nothing wrong (it could be that I missed something here), just like some socialist bureaucrat. I just don't think academia works that way.
There has been enough reviews about how religion was badly intertwined, how the character Palmer was unnecessary, how unreasonable the Vegans are, and how bad the visual effect was. I just want to once more vent my disagreement to how Ellie was portrayed. She was young, beautiful, candid, smart and hardworking, rushing for work, and the only person ever to cling to the truth, even she had no proof. And she didn't even ask to see the footage by person. Ugh. Can't connect with her at all.