It's all relative

Rating: 7/10 (20 April 2016)

'Interstellar' features many commendable aspects. I did appreciate the fact that some of the dramatic tension is driven by the concept of time relativity, which has not been overdone in sci-fi movie history. However, the bit about NASA deciding to turn over their life-or- death mission to some random person who just happened along seemed ridiculous. The melding of family melodrama to cosmic sci-fi didn't work for me, either, and the "twist" seemed fairly predictable. However, I think the movie's worst failing was in trying to explain temporal concepts that '2001: A Space Odyssey' was able better to convey solely with images. And the robot designs, while at least original, seemed terribly clunky.