Good idea turned wrong

Rating: 6/10 (8 March 2017)

I find this film to be overrated by those that are liking it and underrated by those that are hating it, the overall score now is over 8, it is a little bit too much, other movies better than this one (for instance 2001: A space Odyssey) have a lower score and is a bit unfair that this flick is on pair or slightly over in IMDb score over that film. The cast is a mixture of good and bad, Matthew McConaughey acting, for instance, is good, Anne Hathaway so and so, Matt Damon, again, so an so, John Lithgow is OK, Michael Caine is OK (but is too old for his part, the casting is an issue, I will add more on this topic), Jessica Chastain is OK, so is the younger Murphy portrayed by Mackenzie Foy but the older Murphy portrayed by Ellen Burstyn is unconvincing. The supporting cast is, for the most part, forgettable, unidirectional and cartoonish (for instance the robots, the son Tom, the crew etc.). The script/plot is the main issue of the film, from the beginning we are introduced in a future society that has crop/food/drought problems due to climate changes and mildew. But these problems could not be planetary as we know that our planet does not have just a continent and the climate on those five continents differs dramatically, for instance Siberia has a totally different climate that Australia or India. Again if you have climate problems in middle of USA chances are, in the real life, that in northern Canada these problems will turn in advantages on your part, so why not re-settle in more advantageous regions on Earth instead of going directly into deep space with plan A (the whole planetary population towards another galaxy!!), this is the first and the biggest hole in the main plot. The second major issue of the script is the whole NASA business, it is secret, but somehow have huge funding for deep space programs, the government (a Orwellian one, no more or less) denies that space is a priority but secretly invest in it (why? we don't know and the script writers have no idea, too) and finally in the whole world only NASA/USA have deep space programs, the others no, they do not bother with space and the film makers are not bothered with them, too. Finally, the whole gravity/physics/equation/wormhole/black hole thing is again a very big plot hole. Firstly the professor get to the conclusion that Plan A (the whole population in space thing) can't be done (duh!) and secretly arrange Plan B(embryos in Cryostasis) without the knowledge of the space crew. All the pseudo-scientific theories regarding the fabric of time, gravity,black holes etc. are improbable and unbelievable, I know, it is an SF,but this part of this plot is too much especially the ghost part and entering of the black hole thing, with the fabric of time manipulated and equation solved by Coop and Murph in a very bad written scene. On top of this plot holes add a whole lot of bad Hollywood clichés and bad casting choices (for instance professor Brand, a 80 year old Cockney has a 30 year American Jewish daughter, young Tom is a Midwestern boy that turn into an East Coast fellow in his 40s, old Murphy is English, the young and midlife are not etc.) The movie has good potential, some parts are good, with beautiful scenes, but is again a case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as in many big Hollywood movies lately. The idea and script had potential, the cast had too. The CGI effects are OK, do not expect a heavy fight flick with shoot the alien between the eyes at every 30 seconds, as in Edge of Tomorrow for instance, a truly bad, over the top SF, no, it is a more thinking man SF but ultimately it fails due to the bad plot/scenario. This movie was a good idea turned wrong, it is a 6, 6.5 grade at best!