Interstellar light years from stellar

Rating: 3/10 (20 July 2015)

Interstellar is another example of the continued deterioration of Christopher Nolan and his writing partner and brother. This movie is really a jazzed up version of "Ghost" and "Back to the Future" in many ways and that is in a serious science fiction movie, of course, a bad thing. It is pretentious, preachy, and cliché ridden and has the Nolan mark of some nice visuals but dragged down by haphazard and illogical storytelling.
Instead of being an exploration of the astrophysical possibilities of transcending the vastness of space, it starts out as a soap opera and ends in a ludicrous manner with the impossible survival of the main character passing through a black hole.
Michael Caine essentially plays the same character as in the Batman movies and that is becoming tiring to me. Matthew M. sometimes mumbles his lines, maybe embarrassed by what he is supposed to say; but hey it's Christopher Nolan, right?!
Anne Hathaway is not believable at all and miscast. The rest of the cast is acting as if in a SyFy original movie. No memorable characterizations or lines in a nearly three hour movie. And at 200 million dollars to produce and promote it just proves that if "big names" are associated with a project anything can get made.
When watching this movie I kept hoping something would be adequately resolved but the ridiculous last 15 minutes on top of the poorly written first two hours demonstrate that Nolan should stop making movies to try and "dazzle" and make movies that actually have a good story and good characters.
As an example of a bad story; in the beginning the audience is told that the world is in a drought but Matthew's character drives through a big green cornfield. Huh? And his truck has a flat tire and he never gets stuck in the field. That kind of illogical depiction continues throughout the movie.
Overall, a non stellar work from a self important deteriorating director.