An overrated Hollywood film

Rating: 3/10 (29 December 2014)

I had heard so many positive reviews from my friends and acquaintances, that I just had to go to see this film. Like many others, I enjoyed Nolan's previous movies. The new Batman trilogy was very much welcomed and Inception was enjoyable entertainment. Nolan has been one of the few directors in Hollywood who have some kind of own voice as a director. Such a shame that Interstellar flops completely (well - I mean artistically, maybe not commercially).
There was no dynamics in the movie, the movie didn't "breath" at all. The audio-visual experience just made all senses numb. The volume of the audio track was too loud, it had too much stuff going on all the time (or at least for the last two hours). When you add that to the space visualizations, the dramatic moments, spaceships exploding... I know the conventions of a Hollywood flick, but for this movie it was too much, the movie was too hectic and the viewer didn't have enough time to think about the philosophical side of things or to examine the characters more deeply. Worst thing was that there were different kind of long tensions being built all the time.
There were a lot of subjects dealing with what makes us human, what is important in life, what is our role in the universe and what is our relationship to other possible forms of life out there. The movie didn't really challenge me to think about anything revealing, though. Actually the movie felt like being quite pseudo philosophical, maybe because it didn't give time for the audience to think a lot during the movie. Maybe I could find something noteworthy under the surface next time (if there ever will be a next time).
The big picture was kind of scattered. The plot went to new directions all the time, you couldn't grab any emotion or moment. Still, I feel that you could have made this movie much shorter. The almost three hour length didn't bring any extra value to the plot or atmosphere. Honestly, I still don't exactly know what happened in the end, what the conclusion in the movie was.
I haven't seen too many science fiction -movies, but I know there are lot of great classics out there. Interstellar was nothing compared to 2001: Space Odyssey (from which it had loaned a bit), for instance. That's why it's unbelievable that Interstellar has such a high rating in IMDb.com (8,9 at this moment). Anyways, for me Interstellar didn't do much. The movie just kind of pointed out the bad state Hollywood cinema is in - artistically speaking, that is.