Just couldn't get engaged...

Rating: 5/10 (19 April 2015)

My first ever review, and I won't get into the technical aspects of the film, but like so many others, I found the film to be a huge disappointment, especially when I had read some "expert" reviews giving it 4/4 stars. I got excited to watch it, but the first 45 Min's dragged on, and on, and on.
I really liked Matthew McConaughey's acting in True Detective. But in this film, the acting was very poor. I put that down to the direction. The other characters really did nothing for me either. Again, I put that down to the direction.
When Matthew McConaughey was talking, I was constantly straining to hear what he was saying. There were times I wished the film had subtitles.
There were a lot of aspects to the film that were ridiculous. If you were going to come back via a black hole to tell yourself to stay, then why wouldn't you spell that out clearly? Instead of a bit of paper that just says "stay" why not give the reason as well? And as for the watch/Morse code/farce on the second hand? Give me a break. Just send a text message to cell phone using "the force". Pffft! The watch bit just lost it for me. That's when I knew this film was pure cheese.
Anyhow, I guess some people like fluff in their movies. But there is no way that this comes close to any of the Sci-Fi classics like 2001 or Contact.
I've seen Lost in Space TV episodes from the 60's that seemed to have more credibility.
Interstellar? That does not compute!