There is a good film in there, but this cut isn't it.

Rating: 4/10 (12 November 2014)

I like Christopher Nolan films, but I actively wish I hadn't spent almost three hours of my life watching this one. There is a good film in there - 15 minutes setting the scene, getting into space, doing things, meeting the mad professor, getting back. All the stuff on Earth once the spacecraft takes off could be lost without anyone noticing, and all the emotional nonsense should have never even been filmed (OK, I like my science fiction "hard", and I suppose I'm describing a cross between "2001"/"2010", "Dark Star" and "The Right Stuff"). The whole "power of love" stuff just slowed the film down, and was frankly boring.
In terms of acting, Anne Hathaway carried the whole thing. She was the only one who seemed to believe in her character. Matthew McConaughey was is usual shallow, overacting self, Michael Caine looked sedated in every scene, and the other cast were totally forgettable.
For a film that was supposed to be scientifically accurate, there was significant silliness - e.g. spacecraft not significantly technically advance from space-shuttles surviving huge amounts of damage (remember that space shuttles were shut down after a small piece of ice caused sufficient damage to destroy the last mission), ridiculous amounts of fuel apparently being carried on small craft (escape velocity without booster rockets), robots that could not possibly move around in the way they did, some sort of interstellar "ark" that couldn't have held the population of a small state, let alone a significant proportion of the world. The effects were great, the engineering terrible.
The thing that stands out for me was the music - the soundtrack was excellent. It isn't often that organs are used so much in a movie.
I shall mourn the film this could have been, since I will not revisit the one as released. It is too long, too "touchy-feely", and too directionless.