Manipulated ratings and Highly Overrated

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2017)

I am driven to review this purely because of the misleading and manipulative bulk ratings of perfect 10 which give it an overall rating of 8.6! Rating of 8.6 should place it in the range of all time classics and it simply isn't true about Interstellar.
So, what exactly is wrong? Let's start with what is right. The basic Sci-Fi premise (although pedantic and worn out) is worth a while. The cinematography is above average. Action sequences for most part manage to hold interest despite falling to pieces in critical points. What is wrong could take a while to entangle but I will keep it short. First of all, there is no flow. Audience is literally forced to fend for themselves in different light year spans with too much of poetic license being handed out to the director. Casting is perhaps weakest link. There was no way Matthew M and Ann H could fit into these characters and and mercifully they didn't even try to pull a muscle. There was at least a 30-40 minutes of extra flab which was forced into the movie for no obvious reason, damaging the tight grip necessary for a movie of this genre. I was tempted to administer a coup-de-grace to myself several times during the prolonged roll out but decided to stay and watch how it panned out. Frankly, it panned out just the way it appeared 15 minutes into the screening and the director was serious about not popping any surprises. One word : Stay away.