Interesting story with intriguing plots and great acting.

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2014)

First off, this would've been a lot better if they had cut quite a lot of the first half of the film. It took too long to get going and I was ready to fall asleep — it didn't help that I was already tired to begin with. The beginning set my mood for most of the film and maybe I was sitting too close to the screen, but my head felt really heavy.
The plots were really intriguing and I love the concept of travelling light years in space with relativity and all that stuff. I'm not a physics geek myself but I have read previous Orson Scott Card novels and I think it was the Ender's Game series that had that space travel. Anyway, it was pretty easy to keep along with the time travel and wasn't as complicated as I thought it might be.
The acting was brilliant. I personally do not like McConaughey all that much but he was pretty good in this, though I had a hard time understanding his accent at first. Hathaway was good in her role too, though not really a significant presence. What stole the show for me was Mackenzie Foy. Moving away from being Renesmee in Breaking Dawn Part 1 & 2, her role here is completely different and she was able to get into her character's shoes really well. The emotions she was able to convey of her character was very mature for her age. Chastain as the older version of Murph played her character well too.
In addition, the visual effects were stunning and visually stimulating. It's not easy to make outer space look real, and invent realistic looking worlds at the same time. The worm hole was well crafted and the layout of the planets carefully planned. What I do not get is the 5th dimension stuff, though I liked the visuals. I just don't understand how it got there.
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