My Personal Experience of Interstellar

Rating: 5/10 (20 March 2015)

Sometimes I wonder if swimming against the tide is the right thing to do, but with this movie I am not going to hesitate in giving it a low score despite all the raving 10/10 reviews. I'll just share my personal experience with you. First off, I didn't really like the characters and my biggest problem was with the lead character. I was hoping to see Tom Cruise, because I had gotten accustomed to seeing him in two of the best sci-fi movies, i.e. Oblivion and The Edge of Tomorrow. Simply put, the lead character didn't have the looks.
The country side scenes the movie began with bored me to tears. It's not a good idea to start a movie with boring country life. Most sci-fi films go well with a New York City than with a country side setting.
I couldn't really connect with or care about the main characters, much less with the much discussed "humanity" for that matter. Their performances were wooden at best. Also, Since English is a foreign language to me, I had an extremely hard time understanding what was being said. The characters were mumbling all the time and their voices were muffled by the ponderous music. The music score was terrible, unemotional and gave me a headache. I got the main dialogs though.
I was literally dozing off throughout the movie. Three hours is simply not an appropriate length of time for a movie, because thanks to the technology, most people have a short attention span and quickly lose interest.
What I found remarkable in Interstellar were the scenes that effectively captured the negligibility of mankind when compared to the entire universe or the seemingly endless surface of a planet. Scenes like showing a spaceship float in an endless ocean or them arguing with each other on the surface of a frozen planet were grand. In spite of this, while such scenes were jaw-dropping, they were soulless and uninteresting. Now I know making those scenes is technically difficult, but I've gotten so used to seeing more remarkable, complex and colorful special effects in Marvel superhero movies (Transformers, Iron Man, Spiderman, The Avengers, etc.) that the masterful special effects in Interstellar simply didn't deliver, and I'm saying this as an average sci-fi fan and not as a CGI expert.
The plot rather kept my attention up until they said who had made the three-dimensional space, which was simply unbelievable and took the movie to the realm of nonsense. Had they said it was designed by the Ancient Roman Gods it would have been more believable than this lousy explanation. They should have stopped at "a higher being we cannot understand" or a simple "we do not know if it was even designed and was not simply a working of the natural laws of physics". Not to mention the ludicrous idea that the whole "intelligent design" to save the mankind revolves around a kid's bedroom.
The movie had an emotional ending, which I liked and I think it was its strong side, but it failed to make me all emotional like Titanic. I'm fascinated by such things as wormholes, space-time, etc. and I tend to read a lot about such things and thus I expected much more from a movie that dealt with my favorite subject than just trying to explain to me what a wormhole does using a piece of paper, which instead of making me feel smart, made me feel dumb and insulted, because anyone who goes to see Interstellar should already be familiar with at least the "basics". What happened inside the wormhole could have been depicted in a far more imaginative way than just spiraling dust, which made it look like a cheap sci-fi flick. If the movie had a better editing and inessential parts were cut out I would've given it a higher score. If there's anything Interstellar excels at it's taking boredom to a whole new level.
I give it 5/10.