An arrogant, cheap satisfaction movie

Rating: 3/10 (28 November 2014)

I will start saying that the movie is an OK watch. You get involved, maybe even cry a bit, you get amazed about nice images a good pictures, but this does not define a great movie, not even close. The plot is so cheaply made it kind of makes you furious to have spent the time watching it at all.
Let's start by the use of physics. He might even had had scientific advisors, but he certainly did not listen to a word they said. The whole thing lacks coherence and breaks some of the fundamental concepts the movie claims to address. (1) When you get into a black hole you are turned into a little spaghetti without even noticing, your light cone (what you see) becomes so tiny that you can only see things that are falling on the black whole behind you (so no see all that fancy crap that he does), and most certainly you will hear no sound, since the speed of sound is so much smaller that the speed of light, so the communication with the robot, pretty much impossible. (2) All the 5 dimensions thing is very much based on string theory, which is a theory to unify quantum mechanics and gravity, the very same thing that the professor claims is not possible to unify. (3) only with a worm hole you "can go" to another point in space-time, but certainly not in a black hole -- which is in the end the big solution for the movie, so they got a bit confused there. (4) The fuel you would need to get away from the gravitational field of a BH when you can see it, certainly will not fit in their little ship. (many more, i will not extend much more)
Plot. It looks like those bright heads have fuel to visit all the three planets, but the order is carefully chosen to make you feel really bad about all the time has passed in the first visit and emotionally connect in the cheapest of the ways, see the kids grow up have babies and such. Then there is a very confusing second visit to a planet, where the guy there seems to have an evil plan which involves living the others behind for no particular reason (what was his plan actually?). But we need this, because this leads them into finally falling in the big black hole and communicating back to earth (hm...) some idea that is not transmitted to the audience, even though pretending that everything is making absolute sense. So, a series of accidents that lead into a solution to save humankind that could be reach in a gazillion of other ways. Because, in the end, we do not see any of the important things, like, for example, how did they get up there, how did they convince the population, what made it safe...
Acting. McConaughey just makes himself, and Hathaway cannot be more boring.
I did not find a message in this film, any thesis or elaboration on human nature, any coherent and exciting humanity crisis story with an epic solution, and for a film so scientifically based, any good accurate description of the state of the art in astrophysics. This is why I called it arrogant, it transmits itself so much bigger that it is actually grounded on. So, for good sci-fi, go see 2001-Space Odyssey or Solaris instead.