Amazing acting and special effects, confusing, overdrawn and uninteresting story

Rating: 7/10 (9 November 2014)

To start with I think Christopher Nolan is a very good director who has made remarkable films. And he also tries (in my opinion) to to push himself further with each film. And it was clear from the get go that Nolan is yet again trying to push himself further, this time further than ever before. Unfortunately he has pushed himself a bit too far this time. Let me start of with the good of this movie. Matthew McConahey with out a doubt is the strongest part of this film, with one of the strongest performances I have ever seen from him, and the chemistry between his character and his characters daughter is very strong. The other actors such as Michael Cain, Anne Hathaway and various others also do a very good job and each character feel real, relatable and most importantly interesting. Even the two robot characters (yes there are robots) feel very human. And for someone who hates cgi Nolan sure knows how to use it to maximum effect. The landscape of the alien worlds are breath taking as is the scenes that take place in space. Now here is the bad of the film, it is too long with the content feeling very stretched. The story essentially revolves around three things, the main character and his family, the consequences of living in deep space and the effects of the relativity of time and the solution to save human race. And whilst this sounds on paper like there is enough to fill the whole 3 hours, in reality only the family aspect is explored with any real effect and whilst the consequences of living in deep space and the relativity time prove some truly emotional moments it doesn't feel like the fully explored there potential and then got trapped in the plot holes that come when you deal with time. And the solution to save humanity isn't touched on and without spoiling too much the way in which it was resolved was profoundly stupid. There was simply not enough to make the whole 3 hours feel fulfilled. And like I said it sadly turned very confusing and silly towards the end and left me feeling very bemused. In conclusion it had the makings of a great sci-fi but fell short on one too many things for that to be the case.