Grand ideas don't make great movies

Rating: 1/10 (7 November 2014)

It is beyond me how people can claim the movie to be 'brainy',
'intelligent', 'well written'... With all the things I read about the
movie prior to seeing it makes it the biggest disappointment I've
experienced from cinema in years. I give 1 star to bring balance to the
current rating, in reality this movie is of course not that bad.

The whole idea behind the plot is that McConaughey ended up in this
blackhole where 5 dimensions were compressed into 3 dimensions and
stuff, and where he was able to manipulate gravity by sending his
daughter the message which was imperative for saving humanity. So what
in fact happened is through this ridiculously improbable chain of
events McConaughey ended up inside this blackhole. All this was
apparently the result of a bigger plan all along. Was there really no
easier way for (future humans/aliens) to transmit this data, and if
they built this time-space warping machine inside the blackhole - means
they had access to the data all along? And also means they chose
McConaughey daughter on purpose? So I don't understand, what was this
purpose? Could they not have connected their portal to professor's
office a long time ago, or go for one of the ten billion more rational
alternatives?

On a side note: is it not funny how McConaughey ignored the message NOT
TO GO from the same 'ghost' yet followed the rest of the directions?
While in the end of the movie he idiotically repeats his feeble
attempt. Had he added 'it's you dad' or any other sensible hint he
would have saved his daughter years of suffering (and maybe a lifetime
for himself when he realises this). And I don't even want to get into
how ridiculous it is that he transmitted data by moving the hands on
the watch, which was unaffected after being picked up, meaning it was
hardly gravitational manipulation was it? What was the point of trying
to be scientific and trying to explain it in this way then. If he could
do that, he ought to have found a better solution that did not require
his daughter 25 years to figure out.

And anyway, they saved humanity by building this massive station named
after his daughter (by that time they knew what he went through and
they still named it after her?). Why couldn't they have done the same
thing on Earth? Just build the same goddamn station on Earth without
needing to harvest their gravitational energy bullsh*t, bam, humanity
saved in the same way.

Grand ideas don't make great movies if you can't deliver them
properly... It is atrocity to compare this to Kubrick's masterpiece...