Lost in space while looking for the volume button

Rating: 7/10 (9 November 2014)

Most common complaint at the theater - music so loud much of the dialog was lost. "What did she say?" was heard constantly.. It wasn't cute, edgy or artsy - it was annoying. This is a potentially fantastic movie that got lost in the contradictions, logic problems and bad science. We travel the galaxies yet drive pickups , use paper books and can't grow plants? It's the old sci-fi movie curse of uneven technological progress, i.e. time travel yet unchanged health care, schools and churches.
Were "they" really us from the future? If a planet was close enough to a black hole to affect time how could it be habitable? What's with the five dimensional maze behind the books? Mystery for the sake of mystery? How did a quickly dying Earth build so many artificial worlds and why would these be any safer than our planet?
That said, the stories were very, very good - a rare case where the story back home rivaled that in space. Great acting by the daughter (young and old). Matt Damon's cameo was awful. He looked like a last-minute add-on and unsure about his weird role. Find the volume button and do some explaining next time.