Yet another sensational and unrealistic plot sold as science fiction

Rating: 6/10 (12 July 2015)

This movie really isn't science fiction so much as fantasy with some mixed up elements of science in it.
Sadly the movie lost me in the first 10-20 minutes or so simply because there is no scenario where Earth would have a blight or bad weather which would result in fleeing to wormhole would become a practical solution. On top of that the flight pilot thing is just ridiculous. The likelihood that you pilot through a wormhole based on human skill seems pretty small.
So the premise of why people would want to do any of this was 100% flawed. Given X amount of resources the simply reality is that even if Earth is a barren ball of rock, it still has water and it still has the right gravity and better resources. So the solution would clearly be to just work with the Earth, not flee into the unknown in same sensationalized effort to save humanity. It really just makes no sense and when you base the premise and central motivation of your characters in a science fiction movie with a serious overtone like this and that motivation makes no logical sense, it's hard to take anything after that seriously. They may as well have been setting out to look for the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster to grant them the wish that would save humanity. At least that premise would have been honest and not some silly half thought out plot point skimmed over to explain all the uselessly risky decisions the characters would take later in the movie.
There is also the whole idea that you'd expect a planet near a black hole to be a better place to live than Earth. It has to been almost infinitely easier to fix the Earth than it could ever be to transport the human population through a wormhole to a planet on the edge of a black hole. Nobody would ever think that was a good idea.
As I see it the movie was nothing more than a grand setup to show off the spooky theoretical impacts of relative time differences on humans. The reasoning for their trip was not well thought out and the ending of the movie was total crap. The part most people liked is the spooky sense of how time might pass differently when your near very massive objects. Of course in general it's probably not all that possible to find a habitable planet that close to a black hole. There are many factors beyond the massive gravity that would have either made the planet unlivable or make it simply too risk to call home vs Earth.
For the plot to work Earth would have to be about to be vaporized, not merely having bad weather and blight. Those things can be quarantined and engineered around as long as you have water, sunlight, resources and somewhere near the correct gravity. For instance when they are on the planet and the giant tidal bulge that appears out nowhere which would require a very fast planet rotation. Would it not have been immediately apparent that the planet was no in any way a realistic place to move humanity? It would be easier to just terraform Mars or again for that matter to fix Earth.
America is currently starved for good science fiction and the high rating of this movie is little more than a result of that. People are so desperate for a good science fiction movie they have overlooked the horrible plot holes. Contact is another example of a horrible movie getting good ratings because people are desperate for science fiction.
Even if you say OK, well this movie isn't really science fiction, but it's good. No.. it's just not. It's silly, misleading and completely lacks any kind of well thought out ending.
Watching this sad attempt at science fiction is just utterly disappointing. So much money was spent on such a bad plot and instead of instilling the mystery of science in more people it's just a silly mesh of unrealistic scenarios clinging desperately onto science to save the horrible writing. Robots with vacuum cleaner arms from the 1960s are more realistic than the plot holes in this sad movie.