Good idea, Beautiful film, horrible script

Rating: 6/10 (8 November 2014)

Interstellar tells the story of the fight for the survival of Earth after a global catastrophe destroys almost all food sources for humans. While humans are trying to rebuild, it is clear that it is a losing battle. But NASA, which has gone underground, is meanwhile scouting other possible worlds to colonize before it's too late.
The best points is that from a technical standpoint, it's an incredible movie. The space travel, the post-catastrophe planet Earth (all very difficult things to pull off) look so astounding believable you forget that there are any special effects in the movie. In an era with so much bad CGI even in big budget films, this is quite an achievement.
Now the bad parts: most of the "science" in the film is pure fantasy - when they try to explain the harder parts of it, it is just illogical gobbledygook that you just have to swallow... they may as well not even have tried and gone for the full Matrix treatment.
Although the story ideas are good, the characters are pretty shallow (you only learn the background of one character and it's not much) and all of them are way too selfish to sympathize with. They were not just flawed, but hateful. Christopher Nolan rightly believed that this was the most important element of the film and sadly it fell flat.
The missing story of the characters also is there for the Earth. What happened? Where are all the animals? Is there more to Earth than that one town and farm we see over and over again.
And yet the film is over three hours long.
In the end, although I enjoyed the film in parts, it's not one I will watch over and over again. Definitely see it in the cinemas though if you get the chance!