Couldn't make heads or tails of it

Rating: 5/10 (22 December 2016)

In European eyes this movie starts out as a too American-çliché story. Coop is an Elvis lookalike farmer with a conspicuous drawl, a Nastasia Kinski lookalike daughter and a rusty father (John Lithgow. They live - surprise, surprise - in a cabin-style farmhouse on the prairie. The first 30 minutes have such a strong John Wayne feel to them, one almost expects Coop to ride into the sunset on a horse instead of a truck towards a secret Nasa base. A hard-to-believe Hollywood-style coincidences lead to McConaughey heading a critical mission to faraway planets save the earth. Coop is guided to a secret NASA base via gravity waves in his daughter's room, then gets asked to lead a mission to save mankind the next moment and whoosh... we find ourselves on a foreign planet. If this movie wasn't taking itself so serious, it's almost a parody. A real crisis then happens when the explorers get hit by a Tsunami. Yes, a Tsunami. Somebody in the scenario writing department has been watching too much CNN news at that time. Because of a time speed difference, 25 of earth years pass. An emotional scene happens when Coop views the accumulated messages from earth. A next planet has to be chosen. Dr Brand has fallen in love with the astronaut that was sent to one of the planets, and proposes to go there. The astronaut on that planet goes insane, exit love interest. The planet was uninhabitable anyway, as he duped them in believing it was a paradise. As this exploring seems to be sort of a family business, meanwhile on earth, the scientist who started all this, who is also her father dies. A similar father-daughter thin happens when Coop reaches his daughter, who also has become a space scientist, at a young a age via the fifth dimension. He then tells her the clues to time travel via black holes via morse code on an analogue watch which she finds in her old room 30 years later. They find a greener planet. Mankind is saved. Why Coop is able to travel though time, pushing books from shelves on earth while in another galaxy but unable send through a piece of data? I have no clue. Questions, questions. Not unusual for an unintelligent space movie rated 5,4 with too much focus on cheap emotion and too little on a credible story. But I got interested because of the 8,5 rating. Strange. This is on move I couldn't make heads or tails of.