Blech

Rating: 3/10 (26 December 2014)

So much wrong with this.
Biggest offense: it is B.O.R.I.N.G.
So slow. It drags and drags. It's too damn long.
But also:
1. Fake dumbed-down Hollywood-ized physics. Even I, who doesn't know much about physics, was offended.
2. Does there *have* to be a pretty girl in the cockpit? Really? A hunky guy and a pretty girl are the two lead characters? Something about her face annoys me anyway, I don't know what it is. But to have her cast as the lead was such a disappointment.
3. I didn't like Matt Damon's character, or that character's part of the story, at all. Two guys fighting on the ice? Yeah, no, that scene was just silly, small, stupid, didn't belong in a movie trying to be about big themes, saving the human species, exploring outer space and all that. No I don't think there'd be a silly scuffle on some planet in outer space in some other time dimension. Idiotic.
4. The whole Ellen Burstyn being the daughter thing was icky, weird, him sitting by her bedside gently rubbing her hand as his daughter - yeah, no, not believable and unsavory. Eeeew.
5. Did the team really have to be two white guys, one woman, one black guy? Come on. Was this written by a program, or a person? 6. It was disjointed. We had trouble figuring out what the heck the different jumps were, from one disconnected scene to the next. It was confusing, and not in an intelligent way. We were confused because the writing was all over the place, not coherent.
All in all the movie stank. Huge waste of Matthew McCounaughey, Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, and Michael Caine.