Underwhelming and way, way too long

Rating: 5/10 (14 November 2014)

I am baffled by the near universal praise this movie is receiving here on IMDb.
Out of 2 hours and 49 minutes:

about a half hour was spent watching people crying - every star got their turn;

about a half hour was spent watching people docking spacecraft with their joysticks under great duress. Really? With that AI robot thingie we can't automate the docking? And what oh what does docking add to the story?

about another half hour was spent watching Matt Damon in a dead-end downer subplot;

and then another half hour was spent watching cornfields burning in the distance - why? Just, why?

So right there we could cut the movie down to about an hour, and we will only have about 40 minutes left to go. Leaving maybe 10 minutes or so that were visually interesting... moderately. There were no visual breakthroughs of any kind in this movie - zip.
And listen, I am a lifetime sci-fi fan. So the movie had a wormhole, and some time distortion. Please, is that in itself enough to satisfy anybody who cares about this stuff or do you maybe have to elaborate and get creative?
There was simply nothing of unusual intelligence or quality in this movie. Not the writing, not the acting, not the directing, not the visuals.
In the large theatre where I saw this with hundreds of people, one person starting clapping at the end. And the crowd laughed.
If you're a Christopher Nolan fanboy, then by all means go and enjoy yourself and give it a ten. If that's not you, spend the time doing your taxes or something, you will thank me.