Cool Movie, but a little overrated

Rating: 8/10 (19 March 2015)

Just like gravity this movie puts a lot of effort into showing space travel in a more realistic way, removing Fantasy elements you'd find in Movies like Star Wars etc.
This is a very sensible approach to make the movie more believable. Kubric may have done the same with his success movie 2001 years ago, but most audience just wasn't ready for it. These days with a growing use of the internet more people actually have an understanding of the physics in space and expect to see this in future movies. In addition to standards like silence in space, slingshot travel this movie brings some really cool concepts to life, such as three dimensional wormholes, renderings of how a black hole would look taking gravitational distortion of light into account, the black hole's gravity affecting time. Someone put quite some thought into all this giving the story a lot of explorer like qualities.
Unfortunately Hollywood would not release such an expensive movie without putting in a huge load of drama, probably just to make it more appealing to people who don't care much about space and technology. That alone wouldn't be so bad, but the drama is not only bad and annoying, it is also full of mistakes that just make it less believable.
The female astronaut preference for the planet where her ex lover when is actually believable. But having the male astronaut pester the whole crew non-stop about going back home to his family (which would just ruin the mission) is already very unprofessional. But strangely enough the deaths of all the crew members around them hardly seem to bother them, it's as if they expected them to die anyhow. And while the main character constantly goes crazy about wanting to see his daughter again, he's never really interested in seeing his son again. But what the hell, that's drama: Stupid, irrational, unnecessary and annoying. Luckily the rest of the movie is so good, that this poor drama play couldn't ruin it for me.