A real stinker and even worse in Imax

Rating: 1/10 (30 November 2014)

This movie is a darn shame for it's poor ability to tell a story and I am a bona fide SciFi lover. This movie is a pale imitation of "2001: A Space Odyssey" from the 1960s and it will leave people who lack a significant SciFi background scratching their heads and asking themselves "What did I just see? What did it mean?" Plot synopsis: Earth is dying a slow ecological death. The dust bowl is back, bigger and badder than ever. Crops are failing one by one. All we can grow is corn and you know what happened to Ireland when it tried monoculture: the potato famine. Earth's only hope is to send expeditions through a black hole/wormhole that's conveniently appeared near Saturn.
In the movie 2001, the earth was poised on the brink of mutually assured nuclear destruction and a monolith appeared in the orbit of Jupiter so we sent a mission to it with a bunch of hibernating astronauts and an insane, homicidal computer. In "Interstellar," the mission's hope is to find a habitable planet at the other end of the wormhole. To achieve this mission, a NASA gone underground sends the wobbliest, spindliest ship you might imagine with a bunch of hibernating astronauts and a very personable security robot.
The space vehicle that's sent looks like it could easily be crushed in the tidal gravitational forces of a black hole. It takes an additional two hours for the movie to explore what happens on the other side of the black hole.
The special effects and CGI are probably very good in this movie, but seeing it in Imax presented two problems. First, the focus was not very good when projecting the movie that large. Second, it's impossible to take in the entire screen. You must constantly scan back and forth across the image because the filmmaker's emphasis was sometimes towards the edge of the screen. This appears to be a frequent problem with popular releases shown in Imax and I keep forgetting about this problem.
I really wanted to like this film. I didn't.