Pretentiously self-regarding, portentously self-indulgent

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2016)

Hard to believe that this script went through all the development it would have done to justify the $165 million spent on the project and still remain so bloated. The narrative has at least an hour's-worth of material (visits to not one but *two* dead-end planets) that could have been omitted with any of several simple plot devices so as to get us to the all-important "inside the black hole" denouement with no loss of drama but imposing considerably less on the audience's patience and good will.
And even typing "inside the black hole" brings home the absurdity of that denouement: a super-evolved humanity using it to transmit back in time crucial information without which it would not have survived to super-evolve in the first place -- a paradox supposedly solved by their being able to manipulate time, but which is lazily used to imagine that this somehow frees time from causality.
As if that weren't enough, Cooper makes the effort to spell out "Stay" to his past self already knowing that he's going to ignore his own advice, and presumably knowing that if he didn't ignore it, he wouldn't be there to transmit the civilization-saving data either. And why would he want himself to have stayed anyway? To save his daughter from being upset on that particular day? The absurd juxtaposition of narrative registers -- folksy intergenerational family drama on the one hand, high-concept time travel with high-stakes civilizational survival on the other -- is almost surreally ludicrous.
"Weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable". And also utterly exhausting.