Excellent in all areas important areas.

Rating: 9/10 (8 November 2014)

Well done hard science oriented sci-fi. One heads up, this movie is long, but it holds your attention. Essential impression was a cross between The Right Stuff and 2001 with a well thought out dab of relativity/time travel. Acting was very good with a possible Oscar nod toward McConaughey. Same can be said about the screenplay and script. Underlying the hard story and eventually intertwined with it is a moving tribute to family and moral decisions. Multiple values and viewpoints are presented which, while differing and at odds with each other, manage to avoid falling into "good vs. bad" arguments. All the decisions made by the major characters can be morally defended even while they conflict. If you like hard science sci-fi without the "monsters from beyond" trope, go see it. Visually impressive and well directed, they took pains to invent alien worlds which were believable. My only complaint...the sound track, while extremely good musically, plays so loud at times you have difficulty hearing the dialog.