Holy convenience, Batman!

Rating: 6/10 (12 November 2014)

Interstellar gets some things right, such as the mood and visuals. However, the plot is a complete mess, as it is in many Christopher Nolan films.
SPOILERS!
Some of the problems with the plot are the following: The characters spend a lot of time explaining things, but it is never explained how they know those things. (Five dimensional beings, etc.) There is logically no reason they could know those things. The characters land on a planet very close to the black hole, even though it should have been obvious that the previous astronaut could only have spent a couple of hours on the planet due to time dilation. The trip was only a plot device to make the characters move forward in time. Why would the daughter blame her father? She was as old as her father was when he left. Moreover, the daughter had spent years working with NASA, whereas the father had left soon after meeting them. Why would she still think that her dad knew something she did not? How did the main character know suddenly that the beings were people from the future? And, as the beings had clearly survived and existed in the future, why would they want to communicate with their ancestors? What was their message? "Remember love!"? Give me a break. And why couldn't they communicate more clearly? It is all an irritating plot device. And if it was somehow clear to the NASA people that the beings had "chosen" the main character, why would nobody study more closely the room through which they had communicated? Why would the character calmly fall into the black hole, and then start to panic about how he must tell himself in the past that he should not be allowed to go? If you've already accepted your death, that emotional state was a bit non sequitur. How did the daughter suddenly know that it was her father that was trying to communicate with her? That conclusion was not sane.
It is, of course, very difficult to make a logically consistent science fiction plot, and Interstellar did not even try, making the plot unintentionally humorous. When they hit a weak plot point, the music swells, begging the audience not to think at that moment. But in the end, I did not hate the movie. I certainly liked it more than Inception, which had many similar plot problems.