Plodding

Rating: 6/10 (7 July 2015)

Christopher Nolan has officially jumped the shark. I enjoyed Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but I was waiting and waiting for something to happen in The Dark Knight Rises. Inception was okay, but overly long and Interstellar was eagerly anticipated, until I watched it.
Interstellar has a strong emphasis on family - it's written through the script like writing in seaside rock.
Nolan seems to have confused thoughtful with dull. As the venerable Doctor of Film, Mark Kermode often says: "it needed someone to go through the script with a chainsaw." Although this isn't strictly fair, as the script is (although both wordy and "worthy") not the issue here - it's the pace of the shots. Lots and lots of quiet time, with long takes of the actors doing nothing, but gazing into the middle distance, reflecting on their predicament in a thoughtful way.
Not a bad movie, thought provoking and in one scene, heart-breaking, but could've lost 30 minutes without trying too hard. Not the revolutionary movie it's supposed to be.