Three hours of beautiful looking boredom

Rating: 6/10 (19 November 2014)

I initially saw the trailer for Interstellar a few months ago and immediately decided that, as the trailer painted it as a dull, rather uninspiring sci-fi epic that I was not going to part with my cash or time by going to see it.
Over the last few weeks, as the promotional machine has turned it's wheels and, following many positive reviews both in the media and by trusted friends of mine, I took the day off work purely to go and see Interstellar. I have to say, partly because so many reviews and friends had said "you've really go to see it in the cinema". So I didn't want to miss out.
I started the film, full of anticipation, that I was truly going to see a masterpiece of cinema with a great cast, engaging dialogue, a thought provoking plot and stunning visuals and, well, it had stunning visuals (apart from the external spacecraft shots looking like something from "Star Fleet") and, not much else. To be fair there was a LOT of dialogue. And several of the lines delivered by the robots approached humour.
Had it have been around an hour shorter I could possibly have brought myself towards saying it was enjoyable but, in the main I REALLY had to try hard to enjoy this film. It's a strange one as it wasn't bad enough to be terrible but was nowhere near good enough to be enjoyable.
At one point I was truly fighting the urge to get up and walk out but didn't as I assumed we were near the end (we weren't, there was still an hour and a half to go)
I love Christopher Nolan's films but this smacks of a director being given far too much praise and far too large a budget to play with.
Maybe I should have taken more notice of the trailer.