Good, not great.

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2014)

I definitely went into this film expecting to love it, because I am such a Nolan fan. Also just by looking at it you can tell it was made to be great. In the end, I still enjoyed it, but I was slightly disappointed, expecting a tad more. It was nowhere near as disappointed as The Dark Knight Rises, but I felt like it was missing something.
The story tells of astronauts going on a secret NASA mission to travel to a wormhole in space to a different galaxy in order to find a habitable planet for humanity, which is in danger of being killed off. McConaughey is a farmer/scientific engineer who finds the secret NASA mission with the help of his almost equally smart daughter. Like most Nolan screenplays, it's extremely scientific and complex. I'd argue this one goes a little over his head, he's trying Way too hard to be smart.
The chemistry between McConaughey and his daughter is easily the best part about this film. His ability to cry gets me choked up every time, though he can do much more than that. Combine that with a weeping daughter, and you got a tear jerker. McConaughey does an amazing acting job in this one, he's just so likable all around. The rest of the performances are nice, but the character development is sloppy at times, or it's being distracted by scientific exposition.
This is easily his weakest film, aside from being too scientific, it's just not as creative or imaginative as his Inception, or as realistically interesting like The Dark Knight. He just gets so lost in his Nolan mode that he just goes with whatever. I will say the plot near the end is set up very well, even if it does drag on a tad. This film could have easily been 2 hours or a little more. It did not have to be 3. So much of the film could have been trimmed.
I enjoyed it as a whole, but it's one of the weaker films I've seen this year. It's still Nolan so it doesn't suck or anything, it gets by, but that's about it. For what I was expecting, I was wanting more, for what I got, I would still recommend it highly.