Not All That Great

Rating: 8/10 (10 November 2014)

It was okay. I liked some parts better than some others. It didn't seem that believable. It really didn't make sense in the final analysis. It was a beautiful exercise in filmmaking----but plot-wise I thought it contrived, far-fetched, not that rational, too facile, and more like a good road trip movie that just happened to be somewhere outside the galaxy.
Quite honestly I liked the movie, but I didn't love the movie. Once again, as in the film "Gravity" there were things that stretched credulity to the breaking point. Too many times things went wrong....and got salvaged somehow against all odds. I mean, making a swish jump shot from the other basket CAN be done-----but doing it FIVE times in the same game without missing even once? That's how ridiculous the survival of the two protagonist voyagers struck me. Example: Believable was Damon and his craft getting blown to hell------ Not-Believable was docking with the remnant of the ship....(which somehow survived all the shrapnel of the explosion), somehow docking with it as it spun at high speed, and somehow making it work. This sort of thing occurred repeatedly.
If you want me to get caught up in scifi-----make it believable scifi. Give it enough possibility to allow me to suspend disbelief. That was not the case with this movie.
Excellent acting. Fry, playing the daughter, is a beauty and a good actress. McConaughey, Hathaway, Chastain, Lithgow, Caine, etc all excellent in their roles. Great cinematography by Van Hoytema. Music by Hans Zimmer fit. Some of the planetary sets were absolutely wonderful, otherworldly indeed.
Plot by the Nolans, though---- just not that credible.
Overall, a good movie, and one with enough twists and spins to engage viewers into seeing it again in an attempt to make better sense of it, or to interpret it into something closer to the language called Logic.
A beautiful movie, well crafted. . .lacking only credibility.