Way, way overrated

Rating: 1/10 (25 November 2015)

OK, first off, the movie clearly doesn't deserve 1 star - I just gave it that to try to counterbalance all the undeserved 10 star reviews that currently give it an vastly over-inflated 8.7 average.
I'll try to keep this brief by just listing the good and the bad:
Good:
1. Some impressive visuals
2. Some interesting ideas. Kind of.
Bad:
1. Bad storytelling - half the time it was near-impossible to figure out what was going on, or why the characters were doing what they were doing.
2. Way too long. Seriously, this movie was easily an hour longer than it needed to be. At least.
3. The plot has more holes than Swiss cheese. Not incorrect scientific facts so much as things just being unrealistic. For example - if the future humans (or whoever set up the whole black hole library thing) had the capability to do that, why couldn't they just send us a clear message from the future to help us out? Why this convoluted plan to get Cooper into the black hole to send ridiculous messages back to himself and his daughter using Morse code, binary code, etc?
4. Way too obvious - why couldn't the characters figure out that the data Matt Damon was sending was fake? One look at the planet made it pretty clear it was uninhabitable, and I saw the whole "he was so lonely he'd do anything to get rescued" plot line coming up. But none of our super-smart heroes could figure that out?
I was really looking forward to seeing this movie after all the rave reviews it got, but in the end I thought it was somewhere between awful and just barely passable. And through the last hour of the movie I kept checking my watch and wondering how much longer until it was over.
If you can see it cheap, it's probably worth watching, just keep your expectations really low.