One serious flaw

Rating: 5/10 (21 September 2015)

They spend a vast fortune on firms like this. They must spend so much more to get a big return than say a TV series like Star Trek or Stargate SG1 might so they should get all things right not some right and some wrong – yes? The new frontier stuff like seeing earth from a great distance and the end of the film were both "far out" and good. Yet not being able to hear the actors for most of the time is a crime that does not occur with a film like Gravity where the actor's voices are crystal clear.
Even at the start we had issues; the three people in the SUV where did the son vanish to and driving back to the combine harvesters with a flat tyre. Not a brilliant start for a serious science fiction film as opposed to less serious science fiction like Edge of Tomorrow which was brilliant all the way through and yes you can hear the actors like Tom Cruise.
Why do they always whisper that's not acting if you can't hear them. Matthew McConaughey may be a good actor but why talk in whispers against a background of loud music and sounds and the much more important computer graphics. Little wonder the android type computer says: "Why are you whispering they can't hear you".
Maybe director Christopher Nolan encourages this as even Anne Hathaway sounded like she was in another room at times. Perhaps they should have use Matt Damon in the lead role because you can at least understand him. At least when he got angry I could hear McConaughey.
But we stuck with this film like Starship Troopers even though travelling through the wormhole owes a lot to the TV series Stargate SG1 and yes we could hear Michael Caine.