Awful Accompanying Music

Rating: 6/10 (17 December 2014)

It's not too often that I hold my recommendation for a movie based on its music, but sadly for "Interstellar", directed by Christopher Nolan this was the case. The music in a good deal of the movie is so grating and batty that I could not concentrate on the movie-watching, a total distraction and disappointment. It was like a crazed clown playing chord sets on an organ. Had the music been not so obtrusive I would've given the movie a 7/10. It runs too long and needed to be edited down especially at the beginning. The movie is not lacking ambition, and Nolan endeavors to deal with interesting science fiction and science phenomena. McConaughey has been in the better "Contact" years ago, so is no stranger to science fiction. Hathaway tones down her role while Michael Caine's character is quite annoying - (spoiler) his death bed gibberish monologue was incoherent and difficult to understand. Mixed 6/10